Samsung Stadium Dance

At a corporate pep rally in the Samsung Stadium in Korea, thousands of people stood, squatted and danced on the field in caped costumes which allowed them to create moving images. This exhibition was viewed (and videographed) from adjacent grandstands. The effect was similar to pattern displays created occasionally at sports events by team supporters who hold up a succession of colored placards on cue, while sitting adjacent to each other in one section of a stadium or arena.

The multicolored flag-like capes worn by the participants in the Samsung event enabled them to display instantly pixels of blue, white, yellow and red. The complex choreography created moving designs, words and animated figure silhouettes. The dancers, seen from a distance and occasionally up close in a video of the event, were intricately coordinated as they executed rapidly-cued moves to popular music themes.

In addition to varying their appearance with the capes and their postures, the participants also moved about the field in lines and complex formations which created patterns similar to those of sophisticated marching bands.

[http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=12586159] A video of the performance

Origin

This demonstration apparently evolved from competitive routines performed at sports events by South Korean boys cheering on their soccer teams while sitting and standing in the grandstands. The boys reportedly wear a jacket that is one color on the back and another on the front, and which they open or close to reveal a shirt of a third color. They supposedly may also use their pants to add shadings.

[http://onemansblog.com/2007/10/27/south-korean-sports-fans-rock/] Documentation and video of school boys