듀이의 ‘상황’을 통한 접촉 즉흥의 ‘경험’ 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show that contact improvisation is a vivid artistic presentation of what J. Dewey calls ‘experience’ by applying his concept of ‘situation’. Dewey's ‘situation’ is, first, a ‘recognized environment’ in which thoughts originate, second, ‘interaction’ between humans and people, things, etc around them takes place, and third, it is an unstable and dynamic field where problems occur and at the same time, problems are solved. The meaning of contact improvisation analyzed through this 'situation' is as follows. First, contact improvisation is a dance that the dancer immediately executes by focusing on the situation here and ‘thinking about the present’. Second, the dancer of improvisation dance communicates with his partner in order to connect with his or her movement. Third, the problem situation is solved by the dancer maintaining contact with the opponent and continuing the improvisation movement, resulting in ‘aesthetic experience’. In the above contact improvisation, the dancer's intellectually, emotionally, and practically integrated and completed dance corresponds to Dewey's ‘an experience’, an ideal form of aesthetic experience.