Halla Huhm
Halla Pai Huhm (* 1922 in Fusan , then the Japanese Empire , now South Korea ; † January 29, 1994 ) was a South Korean dancer and dance teacher.
Life
Halla Huhm moved from the Korean Peninsula to the main Japanese islands at the age of five and grew up there with a cousin from whom she learned traditional Korean dance . In addition to studying economics at Jitsen Women's University in Tokyo , she studied classical dance and ballet in Europe . When the Second World War broke out , she returned to the peninsula. In 1949 she moved to Hawaii .
Here she founded the Halla Pai Huhm Korean Dance Studio in 1950 . In addition, she accompanied groups to Japan and South Korea for a travel agency . She used these trips to study new types of dance with various masters: classical Korean dance with Han Sung-jun , Buddhist dance and music with Pak Song-am , shamanic rituals and dance with Lee Ji-san , Salp'uri with Kim Mok-hwa and Korean court dance with Kim Ch'on-hung . In 1954 she appeared in the role of a geisha in the play Teahouse of August Moon at the Honolulu Community Theater .
From 1959 Halla Huhm taught dance at the University of Hawaii . From 1983 to 1988 she taught at Chonju University in Korea . In 1989 she and her dance school were part of the cultural delegation of the state of Hawaii at the Festival of American Folklife of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Halla Huhm and her students took part in the events marking the 90th anniversary of the beginning of Korean immigration to Hawaii with a retrospective of their most important choreographies. She herself performed with Noin Ch'um ("Dance of the Old Man"), a choreography from the 1950s inspired by Japanese mask dance.
In 1994 the Halla Huhm Foundation was established to promote Korean dance and the arts in Hawaii. In the course of her life, Halla Huhm collected a large number of photographs, programs, posters, reviews and other objects related to Korean dance. These were recorded at the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii and processed in 1998 in the volume The Halla Huhm Dance Collection: An Inventory and Finding Aid .
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- Halla Huhm Foundation: Biography Halla Huhm
- Korean Studies Review: The Halla Huhm Dance Collection: An Inventory and Finding Aid
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huhm, Halla |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huhm, Halla Pai (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Korean dancer and dance teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fusan , then the Japanese Empire , now South Korea |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1994 |