Korean Dance Research Articles

Exploring the Korean Dance Education System in School Dance: Focusing on the Common Curriculum

Exploring the Korean Dance Education System in School Dance: Focusing on the Common Curriculum

Alvin Ailey and Korean Dance: Writing Afro-Asian Relations into Korean Dance History

A close examination of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 1962 Seoul performance, as well as Ailey’s influence on Korean dancers’ training and choreography, reveals that Ailey’s impact on Korean contemporary dance is significant. Ailey’s exploration of African American experiences piqued local dancers’ and critics’ interest, and suggested commonalities between Koreans’ and African Americans’ histories of oppression. This article examines performances, interviews, and criticism across a span of four decades, and brings special consideration to similarities between Yuk Wan-sun's Heuginyeongga and Ailey's Revelations in order to reframe Korean contemporary dance’s connections to Ailey and to illuminate Afro-Asian affinity.

A Study of Key Figures in the Leap Period of Korean Dance: Focusing on Song Beom

A Study of Key Figures in the Leap Period of Korean Dance: Focusing on Song Beom

The Effects of Korean Dance Participation on Health Related Physical Fitness and Bone Mineral Density in Middle Aged Women

The Effects of Korean Dance Participation on Health Related Physical Fitness and Bone Mineral Density in Middle Aged Women

Presenting Soviet Korean Identity in a Multicultural Society: Activities of Korean Kolkhoz Politotdel's Ensemble Cheongchun in Uzbekistan during the 1970s and 1980s

This study explores the overview of Soviet Koreans' performing arts activities in Uzbekistan, with a particular focus on the activities of the Soviet Korean kolkhoz Politotdel's ensemble Cheongchun during the 1970s and 1980s. It aims to clarify the roles and implications of the ensemble in a multicultural society. Since the late 1950s, the Soviet Korean kolkhozes, including Politotdel in the Chirchiq district of the Tashkent oblast, Uzbekistan, have experienced remarkable economic growth. In the cultural milieu of the Korean people, dance and music were inherently intertwined, occupying a significant position. Initially established as a vocal‐instrumental ensemble, Cheongchun always integrated dance and music in its presentations, with dance performances playing a crucial role. An official dance troupe was formed in 1976, and in 1984, it was merged with the ensemble Gayageum. Artistic director and dance teacher Jeong‐wook Hwang (1940–), who studied dance in Pyeongyang, Moscow, and Tashkent, made significant contributions to fostering exchanges with North Korean dancers and actively incorporating Seung‐hee Choi's North Korean dance elements. Cheongchun has played a pivotal role in promoting Korean dance and music not only in Uzbekistan but also across the entire Soviet Union and the United States, thereby visualizing the identity and positive image of Soviet Koreans as exemplary citizens in a multicultural society.

Research on dance studio online system to improve user experience - Focusing on Korean dance studios

Research on dance studio online system to improve user experience - Focusing on Korean dance studios

Dance for Liberation: A Case Study for Addressing Han through a Traditional Korean Dance-Based Psychotherapy Approach

Dance and feminism share the epistemological understanding of the body as a site for agency, potential for change, and knowledge creation. This clinical case illustrates how a joint, indigenous dance and what are referred to as complementary and alternative medicine in the United States can enact a decolonizing psychotherapy framework for co-creating a space to access and embody cultural knowledge. Gimoo, a practice founded on traditional Korean dance and traditional Korean medicine, attends to an intergenerational trauma and resilience response, han, in a Korean immigrant woman to the United States. An indigenous dance that is inherently cultural can be a resource to empower a person to be an agent of their own liberation through support and solidarity, even in a virtual setting, and to expand Western notions of what healing might entail.

해외 사례와 비교한 한국무용의 정치적 트라우마 재현과 극복 가능성

Little specific research, in Korea, has been conducted on whether dance can overcome it by recreating the trauma caused by war or national violence. This study examines the possibility of active political participation in Korean dance by reproducing the trauma caused by national violence and applying the theory of dance and overseas cases that conveyed the message of overcoming to Korean dance creations performed at the 40th anniversary of the May 18 Democratic Movement. To this end, domestic research trends on dance, trauma, and political context are examined, and concepts related to choreography and dance are defined to find contact points with overseas cases. In addition, overseas dance cases and theories that reproduce the trauma caused by national violence are introduced, and this is applied to works performed at the 40th anniversary of the May 18 Democratic Movement. As a result of a comprehensive study of Roland Barthes' ecriture thought, which means falsehood in reality, Roland Bleiker's aesthetic politics on the premise of imperfections in the reproduction effect, and Bill T Jones's choreographer statement, which emphasized the humble choreography creation spirit, it was found that securing uncertainty and plurality in choreography creation can maximize the possibility of trauma reproduction. As a result, most of them are still limited to memorial rituals such as Ssitgimgut and Salpurichum, and it is necessary to sufficiently increase the possibility of overcoming trauma through the efforts of the audience such as victims.

Korean dance/movement therapists’ clinical experiences working with individuals with developmental disabilities: Phenomenological study

This phenomenological study explored the clinical experiences of Korean dance movement therapists working with individuals with developmental disabilities, focusing on therapists’ physical, emotional, and professional experiences. Interview data and visual artwork were collected from six dance movement therapists. Qualitative analysis identified 42 subcategories, 13 categories, and 5 themes: (a) body play as a driving force for psychophysical development, (b) limitations in the clinical field due to multiple factors, (c) struggles and threats to professionalism in evaluation, (d) cultivating professionalism and interpersonal support to overcome clinical challenges, and (e) qualities and roles for professional life. This study aimed to provide vivid descriptions conveying the clinical experiences of dance movement therapists working with individuals with developmental disabilities in Korea, where dance/movement therapy continues to grow in clinical and academic fields.

Instagram Sebagai Media Informasi untuk Memperkenlakan Keberadaan dan Kegiatan dalam Komunitas @Pf_Ent Palembang

PF Entertainment is a community of lovers of Korean-style modern dance or Korean Dance Cover which uses the mass media Instagram as an information medium for the public to introduce their existence and activities. However, as time goes by, this media competes with other media such as TikTok, which is currently very popular. The aim of this research is to utilize knowledge of Instagram media in introducing the existence and activities of PF Entertainment. This study uses a qualitative method. The theory used is Effective Communication Techniques. The result of this research is that by using Instagram, of course the admin always updates the activities carried out with 2 to 7 pieces of information in one month so that followers can follow and find out about developments in the PF Entertainment community.

Korean Dance Music and Spirituality’: A Critical Review of Won-rae GANG and Sung-gun PARK’s The Dance: 100 Years of Korean Dance Music

Korean Dance Music and Spirituality’: A Critical Review of Won-rae GANG and Sung-gun PARK’s The Dance: 100 Years of Korean Dance Music

한국무용 기반 통합예술동작치유콘텐츠 프로그램 연구

This study developed a program that can help recover from depression and anxiety, which have emerged as a social problem along with the phenomenon of the COVID-19 pandemic, from a perspective of art therapy instead of using medicines. The purpose of this study is to develop a new program with simple movements, breathing exercises, and meditation that have been reorganized with a focus on Korean dance that provides aesthetic senses to help people recover from stress, depression, and anxiety, thereby providing the program as a progressive muscle relaxation therapy through concentration meditation for the public. The rhythms of Korean dance consist of breathing beats, and therefore, their beats are formed by interworking with the length of breathing. In this study, breathing exercises were appropriately applied to the movements of Korean dance movements through an active reflection of this advantage. The movements of Korean dance as a progressive muscle relaxation therapy are gentle and smooth, and thus form a phenomenon that is easily accessible by anyone. This program was intended to help people recover from their psychological stress by creating a dramatic harmony of the body and the spirit through an adequate application and reorganization of the upper body’s gently curved dance movements and the lower body’s rather static dance movements. The process of dance movement therapy via Korean dance is to learn movement techniques that participants can immerse themselves in. This process should enable them to express their immersion and perform appropriate movements even if these movements are not proficient. Dance movements have been applied to the program after being changed to a neutral status in order to allow men to participate in dance movements that used to be centered on women, and appropriate Gutgoeri rhythms for breathing exercise were also applied. This study organized a therapy program with Korean dance’s movements and sensitivity that are most suited to Koreans, which can also serve as a public health program that can relax, supplement, and cure contracted muscles and energy under the tensions of life built over a long period of life. In doing so, it intends to prevent greater stress, depression, and anxiety of the public than before and improve their abilities to resist external circumstances by strengthening their immunity. The results of this study will also be able to promote the qualitative growth of national policy programs related to the improvement of public mental health, and to develop professional dance movement therapy instructors and enhance their expertise through the utilization of a dance movement therapy program. In addition, this program will contribute to job creation for dance majors and positively influence emerging dance industries.

Black-Salpuri: The Innovation of A Traditional Korean Dance Form

Black-Salpuri: The Innovation of A Traditional Korean Dance Form

Advanced Dance Choreography System Using Bidirectional LSTMs

Recently, the craze of K-POP contents is promoting the development of Korea’s cultural and artistic industries. In particular, with the development of various K-POP contents, including dance, as well as the popularity of K-POP online due to the non-face-to-face social phenomenon of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) era, interest in Korean dance and song has increased. Research on dance Artificial Intelligent (AI), such as artificial intelligence in a virtual environment, deepfake AI that transforms dancers into other people, and creative choreography AI that creates new dances by combining dance and music, is being actively conducted. Recently, the dance creative craze that creates new choreography is in the spotlight. Creative choreography AI technology requires the motions of various dancers to prepare a dance cover. This process causes problems, such as expensive input source datasets and the cost of switching to the target source to be used in the model. There is a problem in that different motions between various dance genres must be considered when converting. To solve this problem, it is necessary to promote creative choreography systems in a new direction while saving costs by enabling creative choreography without the use of expensive motion capture devices and minimizing the manpower of dancers according to consideration of various genres. This paper proposes a system in a virtual environment for automatically generating continuous K-POP creative choreography by deriving postures and gestures based on bidirectional long-short term memory (Bi-LSTM). K-POP dance videos and dance videos are collected in advance as input. Considering a dance video for defining a posture, users who want a choreography, a 3D dance character in the source movie, a new choreography is performed with Bi-LSTM and applied. For learning, considering creativity and popularity at the same time, the next motion is evaluated and selected with probability. If the proposed method is used, the effort for dataset collection can be reduced, and it is possible to provide an intensive AI research environment that generates creative choreography from various existing online dance videos.

한류체험프로그램으로서 외국인 한국무용 교육에 대한 요구도

The purpose of this study is to examine the needs of foreigners" Korean dance education as a Hallyu experience program. As a Hallyu experience program, a qualitative research method was applied to investigate the demand for Korean dance education for foreigners. Specifically, the educational requirements were examined through in-depth interviews with participants participating in the foreign Korean dance education program as of September 2022. Specific research results are as follows. First, the teaching method needs were divided into teaching methods, music types, and video shooting, and detailed demonstrations, repetitive learning, kindness, continuous passion, Korean traditional music use, collection value, and reference video shooting were investigated. Second, as for the contents of Korean dance education, opinions were surveyed that they wanted to learn fan dance, sword dance, and Ganggangsuwolae works only after class, use small tools, and learn more about humanities. Third, after participating in the fan dance program, it was analyzed that the attractiveness of fan dance increased, the image of Korean culture increased, and the interest in traditional culture increased.

A Case Study on the Development of a Dance Movement Therapy Program Using Korean Dance

A Case Study on the Development of a Dance Movement Therapy Program Using Korean Dance

한국춤 이벤트의 선택속성이 관람만족과 행동의도에 미치는 영향

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of selection attributes of Korean dance events on viewing satisfaction and behavioral intention. The research method used to identify the research results was a questionnaire survey using the self-evaluation method based on a total of 255 study subjects, and frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis were performed. Accordingly, the research method is as follows. First, it was found that the selection attribute recognized by Korean dance event viewers partially affects content satisfaction. Second, it was found that the selection attribute perceived by Korean dance event viewers affects service satisfaction. Third, it was found that the selection attribute perceived by Korean dance event viewers affects overall satisfaction. Fourth, it was found that the selection attribute perceived by Korean dance event viewers affects the intention to revisit. Fifth, it was found that the selection attribute recognized by Korean dance event viewers affects the recommendation intention. Sixth, it was found that the viewing satisfaction perceived by Korean dance event viewers affects the intention to revisit. Seventh, it was found that viewing satisfaction perceived by Korean dance event viewers affects recommendation intention.

LMA이론을 적용한 한국무용전문가의 즉흥 움직임에 담긴 개성적 움직임의 특질

The purpose of this study is to analyze the unique movement form and characteristics of dance experts through Quality of movement that reveal individuality. In order to achieve this research purpose, six research participants were selected as a judgment sampling method among convenience sampling methods. The movement analysis tool used the Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) theory. First, in the Quality of movement of Korean dance experts, a unique movement form appeared, and it was analyzed as a Quality of movement that emphasizes the inner side of the movement. Second, in the Body element shown Quality of movement characteristic was formed by combining the Breath Support and Grounding elements based on Homolateral to form a habituated Body. Third, in the Effort element shown Quality of movement characteristic was as Vision Drive, which consists of Body movement-oriented movements. Fourth, in the Shape element, it was analyzed as an important factor in determining the characteristics of movement according to the Quality of movement characteristic Following Shape Flow and Bulging Shape Flow. Fifth, in the Space element shown Quality of movement characteristic were found to create Indirect Space Effort and Dynamosphere. Also, analyzed as Central Pathway, Central Spatial Tension, Mid-Reach, and Middle level. In conclusion, by identifying the form of movement through Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) theory, it is expected that individual training methods can be presented to dance experts and standards for appreciating dance works as social values.

한국춤의 심미구조에 내재된 역학적 사유규범

The purpose of the current study is to specify the nature of Korean dance by clarifying the dynamic contemplative norm inherent in the aesthetic structure of Korean dance. The traditional styles of Korean dance conveyed a universal aesthetic view and the cognitive systems developed through dynamics have solidified the aesthetic structure of Korean dance to define the awareness of aesthetic truth. The aesthetic structure of Korean dance can be discussed in terms of the spiritual, emotional, and active structural systems. The spiritual structure is identified as the ‘spirit of dance’ where the concept of Oneness of Heaven and Men in the Book of Changes underlies as the nature of Korean dance. The emotional structure is the orientation of body and mind. The mind reflects the abstract spirit and its emotion is expressed through the body to convey the contents of dance. The active structure embodies the natural meaning of mind through the circulating process of generation and extinction of breaths. The dynamic contemplative norm inherent in the aesthetic structure is threefold: first, the contemplative norm of ‘the law of heaven, earth, and men’ explains the law of universe and nature and specifies the natural principle of Korean dance as a ‘metaphysical law’ to conceptualize the property of space through the generation and change of universe and humankind. Second, the contemplative norm of ‘law of change’ is specified in terms of time and space in the phrase, ‘the law of one ying and one yang,’ and interprets the law of Yixue in terms of time and space. Third, the contemplative norm of ‘law of sun and moon’ is specified in terms of time in the phrase, ‘endlessly created universe’ and clarifies the property of time through yin and yang, the law of universe.

한국춤 공연관람의 경험적가치가 감정반응과 관람행동에 미치는 영향

연구목적 이 연구의 목적은 한국춤 공연관람의 경험적가치가 감정반응과 관람행동에 미치는 영향을 규명하는 것이다. 연구방법 연구목적을 달성하기 위하여 폐쇄형 설문지를 활용하여 측정도구로 사용된 변인 간의 영향관계를 규명하고자 하였다. 이에 빈도분석, 요인분석, 신뢰도분석, 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 결과 첫째, 공연관람의 경험적가치는 감정반응의 하위 변인에 부분적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 공연관람의 경험적가치는 관람행동에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 결론 연구결과에 따르면 한국춤 공연이 관람객의 만족을 향상 시키고 공연 서비스의 지속 가능성을 높이기 기위해서는 다양한 스토리를 지닌 창작 한국춤 공연 제작이 더욱 활성화 되어야 한다. 창작 한국춤 공연의 활성화는 글로벌 한류 유행과 함께 한국춤의 발전에 크게 기여 할 것이다.