한국 근대 현대무용 형성에 관한 시고

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to examine the acceptance patterns of modern dance in Korea during the modern times and trace the process of their signs budding and developing. Modern dance, which is translated as ‘hyeondaemuyong’(현대무용) in Korean, is a genre concept created as an antithesis to ballet and, at the same time, holds the significance of the times as the dance with the contemporary modernity. In Korea, aesthetic modernity was born in the thesis-antithesis-synthesis of autogenous modern consciousness and Western modern ideas. In the field of dance, many different theoretical discourses were embraced according to the contemporary flows of the modern times, leading to the gradual establishment of the concept of modern dance. In addition, the Korean-style internalization of modern dance happened little by little in dance creations. Choi Seung-hee, Park Yeong-in, and some dances from the Space of Liberation created works based on modernity. Even though their works were not full-blown acceptance of modern dance, they are significant as the transformation of contemporary modern dance and the local creative acts of aesthetic modernity.