North Korean Children's Parade -- Arirang

[archerships]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8a8a48053a

Via shanmonster

"...This is unreal. You're seeing about 2-3000 kids under 10 in the front doing intensely choreographed gymnastics moves, and look in the background. That's not a giant screen, that's thousands and thousands of children holding up sets of cue cards for the routine. I don't know what it is, but there's something frightening about this. | Children's section of 'Mass Games' or otherwise known as the 'Arirang' performance in Pyongyang city, North Korea in 2005. Watch the giant human mosaic in the background, composed of 15,000 or more individuals each holding a colored placard. The mosaic changes with the music...."

Comments

Dance is the art form of fascism

[danlyke.livejournal.com]

I once read a great essay that I'm not finding right now that pointed to goose stepping Soviet block soldiers and displays like this in North Korea to contend that dance is the definitive art form of fascism: Only in those cultures do you get the sort of blind obedience to authority and desire to be a part of a homogenous group that these sorts of large scale displays require.

Re: Dance is the art form of fascism

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Architecture too. Commies and dictators do seem to be fond of monuments to themselves.

[mindwalker.livejournal.com]

That's seriously disturbing.

Dance is the art form of Communism

[rillifane.livejournal.com]

Typical of every worker's paradise. The exact place that so many Harvard professors want to take us.

P.S. Fascists don't dance...their art forms are marching and sewing silly uniforms.