This study discusses Merce Cunningham’s creation of (1976) which is composed for video-film dance. The choreography of reveals exact methods used for video-film dances in early 1970s. The process of creating video dance were referred to get the ideas how the choreographer understands and approaches to the scenes in the camera using cuts and flowing of dance. This study intends to utilize the compositional ideas of as a spacial design for video dance. The improvement of technique could determine the quality of dance and dancers and there are aesthetic influences from the Cunningham technique. The aesthetics of is found in the form, structure and its unity, that is intensified by expansion of spacial design and the relationship of time and dynamics in continuity. By placing various sequences of movement phrases on stage simultaneously, he found aesthetic elements from spacial design. In video film of , the camera decides where to look by following the dancers without inferring the flowing of the movement sequences in space. Fluidity is the aesthetic quality that the video of is intended in principal. Besides we find the phenomenal, the formal in aesthetic elements of the dance.

This study has been started from the question about if court dance called as jeongjae(呈才) had been equally performed even in the different the ritual spaces of naeyeon(內宴) and oeyeon(外宴). The aim of this paper is to understand the ritual and jongjae(呈才) by figuring out how to composes of jeongjae is different in oeyeon and naeyeon based on Ŭigwe(儀軌) in the late Joseon Dynasty At First, there were more actors mostly in naeyeon as a result of comparing the numbers of actors in naeyeon and oeyeon. Moreover, in naeyeon, there were more actors in individual jeongjae. Secondly, according to the comparison of composes of jeongjae in naeyeon and oeyeon, there is an extended form of pair in naeyeon but not in oeyeon. In oeyeon, there were many cases that some part of song is omitted. Third, as a result of comparing the numbers of items selected in naeyeon and oeyeon, mostly the number of jeongjae items performed in naeyeon was bigger.

While students attend elementary and secondary dance classes, they develop the internal characteristics such as self-regulation, positive attitude, creativity, cooperation. Such characteristics help students grow as self-motivated human beings, leading development by themselves. This process in dance classes is very similar to the empowerment process in the business organization, where self-efficacy among organizational members is enhanced and their behavioral patterns are changed. With regard to the empowerment process in dance classes, the role of a dance teacher as a leader is important. Then, this study purposes to analyze the leadership model of elementary and secondary dancer teachers in order to enhance their capabilities to affect the empowerment process in dance education. The main results are as follows. The leadership model of dancer teachers consists of three components. First, dance teachers need to be self-empowered through a change in attitude. Such self-empowerment help dance teachers enhance self-esteem, and confidence in others. Secondly, dance teachers need to recognize such roles of a leader as the cooperator, the creator, the coach, the counselor, the mentor, the provider of challenging opportunities, and the capability developer. Thirdly, to enhance empowering abilities of students, dancer teachers may use the implementation skills of leadership such as coaching, counseling, mentoring, and participative decision making. Because the leadership model suggested in this study is analyzed theoretically, the future study should be focused on the empirical analysis of the actual leadership program in order to verify the effectiveness of the theoretical leadership model, and develop the leadership program of a high degree of completion.

This study focuses on analyzing how Han is embedded and characterized in a traditional folk dance, Seung-mu, and its relationship to the Korean culture and dance. This research employs literature reviews for the concept of Han and historical background of Seung-mu and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) for an objective analysis of movements. The findings of the analysis are as the follow. A combination of slowly Rising lower body, gradually Opening arm and Growing torso movements is created by very strict control from the core and Breath Support and is accomplished by a Mobile State—Bound and Sustained—Effort constellation with a moment of inhalation. Continuously following Scattering arm and throwing long sleeve movement accompanies with a moment of exhalation, which comes with Diminished Strong, Free, and Quick Passion Drive Effort. Then, highly controlled outpouring exhalation directs a smooth knee bend and arm close with following soft curves of the long sleeves. The intensely controlled breath supports Sinking Shape Qualities in whole body and inner energy stream smoothly comes back to previous Mobile State, Bound and Sustained Quality. These particularly sequenced movement qualities creating a movement phrase mean a qualitative pattern of the Seung-mu and also reflect the emotional transforming process of Han. The Bound and restricted characteristics signifying strictly controlled inner impulses of lamentation, in Seung-mu refer to a tragic history and strong social restrictions like taboo within the traditional society of Korean people. The hurt and lamenting feelings from their tragic fates are transformed into the artistically refined expressivity with the embodiments of positive and peaceful feelings in Seung-mu.

The purpose of this thesis is for extracting and distributing literal imagery about dance movements in poems written in Tang dynasty. As a result, literal imagery about dance movements were mostly extracted from blowing sleeves, slow and fast spinning movements, and various dancing movements. Furthermore, there are literary rhetorics of beautiful figures, faces, and slender waists of dancers. Adn dancing movements of Geon-Mu were described as dynamic and speediness; while as dancing movements belonged to Yeon-Mu were depicted as soft, lyrical, and elegant. Those descriptive words for dance in Tang dynasty’s poems were highly artistic language while it could be compare to the literal shaping of dance. This thesis analyzed literary phrases of dance movements in Tang dynasty’s poems; so that how the people appreciated substantive esthetics in music and dance, not for philosophy and pragmatic theory.

Compare to the other arts forms, dance as an intangible performing arts foam is restricted in records. Until the photo and video materials were actively utilized for recording dance, the dance was only remained in memories of dancers and audience members who experienced the dance site of those times. Recently dance oral history is beginning to apply for writing new dance history. While dance oral history offers to dancers to testify their own histories, it makes dance people to participate in writing dance history. Thus, oral history scripts on dance that is dance peoples’ oral texts can expend horizon of dance history’s writing. In present, historical resources on the 20th century’s Korean dance, particularly in the period of Korean Liberation (1945~1948) and the period of Korea War (1950~1953) are poor as if these periods are vacuity. Even if some documents related to these periods are existed, those contents are the event, the dancer, the dance work, the dance criticism, and dance organization which are limited evidence of these periods. On the other hands, oral history scripts on dance related to these periods provide vivid historical evidences on cultural environments and real situations of dance production and dancers. Because those oral texts were created by voices of senior dancers who lived in these periods. Futhermore, the scripts clue in on anthological, sociological, and psychological resources related to the dancer or dance trends in these two periods. Therefore, applications of oral history scripts on dance enable to write on deeper historical themes, such as the dancer’s identity, changes of aesthetics, trends of dance creation, dance policies, and dance agencies in the 20th century. The purpose of this study is how to overcoming limitations of writing on the 20th century’s Korean dance history through the oral history scripts on dance. First of all, the researcher analyzed two dance history books, Hangguk Hyeondae Yesulsa Daegye I [An Outline of Arts History of the Korean Modern Period] and Woori Muyong Baeknyeon [100 Years of Korean Dance]. Then, the vacancy and the errs related to the period of Korean Liberation and the period of Korea War that discovered in those two books were made up with the texts of oral history on dance that completed in 2008 and 2009 by the Arts Resource Center of the Arts Council Korea. In result, this study has attempt to open new horizon for writing on history of the 20th century’s Korean dance. Even though this study first attempts to apply the oral history text of senior dancers for writing dance history, the trail is limited to supplying new historical facts. That is, the study could not developed to writing new dance history because previous resources were so poverty than the researcher had expected. In the future the oral history scripts would aid not only dance history researchers to write alternative dance history, but also to discover counter memories compare to the previous dance history books.

This study is about the Kim Su-ak’s Salpuri-chum focusing on Jinju region. The methods of studying are direct learning and collecting basic sources such as interviews and technical training from Kim Su-ak. Kim Su-ak first acquired Salpuri-chum while learning various dances from Choi Soon-i who was a dancing master of Jinju Gwonbeon (Female Entertainers’ School in Jinju Region). But she formed her own syle Salpuri-chum with adding her artistic talents. The progress of this study was as follows: first, learned the formation of Kim’s Salpuri-chum. Second, analyzed the features of Kim’s Salpuri-chum while dividing the dance into incidental music, important dance phrase, and aesthetic characteristics. As the result, both Kim’s Salpuri-chum and Salpuri-chum in Jinju Gwonbeon style give strong feelings to the dancer or the audience with the pleasure rather than the sorrow; also these dances suggest a dynamic image rather than a static image. While as Kim’s Salpuri-chum is recognized artistic value, but unfortunately, the dance was not been designated as intangible cultural heritage. Therefore the rate for learning students for this dance is relatively decreased. However, this dance perfectly contains a unique and intact form of local dance movements in Youngnam (Southern regions of Korea), so that the study of this dance will be playing a role to reveal the historicity of Jinju dance. Also, I hope to enlarge various bases of Kim’s Salpuri-chum.

The purpose of this research is to explore if the Feldenkrais Method(ATM), a leading approach of the somatics field, is positively applicable to Royal Court Martial Arts. Three research questions were prepared to achieve the purpose of this study. As a research method, experiential description based on phenomenology was employed. The researchers of this study applied the ATM to a practical field of Royal Court Martial Arts, Pyung Soo Beop in particular for 100 days. Making the training logs, the researcher described them in a lingually representative way. The result of analysis and interpretation of the somatic data were as follows. First, what appeared on Sensory Awareness Training during the process of learning the ATM of the Feldenkrais Method, were largely categorized into three features. (1) ‘intentional exploration’-the process of recognizing intention through movement, (2) ‘relaxation and communication’- the process of delivering the intention of the movement and (3) ‘integration and arrangement’- a status that looks for and recovers a definite intention of movement. Secondly, the answers of the second research questions, were characterized by the following five features: exploration, concentration, coordination, integration, and energy. (1) ‘exploration’ is the first step to discover an accurate intention at the starting point of a motion. (2) ‘concentration’ is the step to recognize and understand the definite intention of a motion. (3) coordination is the step to recognize given information through the process of concentration, and then, to continue to look for the most effective way through a ‘coordination’ of organic movements. (4) ‘integration’ is the step to relax, transit, be aligned, and be recovered through the most efficient movement. (5) ‘ki energy’ is the last one, which not sequential, overall, so it is distinguished form the order of the other steps. Thirdly, the findings to the third research questions were as followings. (1) breathing was improved and changed to be easy, comfortable, stable, and deep. (2) coordination and balance were harmoniously improved. (3) through organic harmony of movements, the body’s alignment changed into a balancing and stable state. In conclusion, this study showed that Royal Court Martial Arts applied by ATM could improve performer’s sensory awareness ability in general, integrating function and structure by intentional movement, through which training of the Martial Arts could be improve in quality.

The purpose of this study is to examine the trend of dance therapy research while providing scholastic information for the future research. To the study, the researcher analyzed 43 research papers on dance therapy which are mainly domestic doctorate dissertation. The information was collected from internet research while retrieving in the Korean Studies Information. ‘Dance healing’ was main word for the internet research. The researcher aslo use keywords with trend of study on dance therapy and theme/object/method of study. The result of study is as follows: Dance therapy is being studied in the academic field at several domestic universities(23 universities). It is mainly studied in the departments of athletic area(47.8%) and health/medical area(27.9%). With respect to type of study, quantitative study(79.1%) is much more than qualitative study(13.9%) and integrated study(7.0%). With respect to tool of study, research by questionnaire(56.8%) is most prevalent. With respect to sample of study, general people(55.8%) is slightly higher than patients(44.2%). Collective sample(87.5%) and mental disease(47.4%) are most prevalent in the sample of patients. With respect to independent variables as the method of dance healing, DMT(41.9%), Korean traditional dance(18.6%) and other dance program(16.3%) occupy 76.8% of the entirety. Health (43.5%) is highest in the dependent variables as the object of dance healing, followed by disease(32.6%), physical strength(8.7%), physical composition(7.6%) and physiological function (7.6%). Related to the health, mental health (37.5%) is higher than physical health (6.5%) and in the disease, mental disease(28.3%) is higher than physical disease(4.3%). In the lower factors of mental disease, the 3 factors of depression(38.6%), stress(26.9%) and anxiety (23.1%) occupy 88.6% of the entirety. The lower factors of mental health appear in the order of self-respect(29.4%), quality of life(14.7%) and emotional intelligence(8.8%) and they diversly appear in the 14 lower factors. Although this study was done for domestic doctorate of trend of study on dance therapy, the study should be extended to include master's degree or journals and study on the meta-regression analysis of dance therapy effect is necessary. The author intends to suggest that the development of dance therapy program and the study to develop questionnaire as tool of study is necessary as independent variable appearing in the result of this study.

This research aimed at verifying the effect of square step program for the elderly's cognitive ability development. As the research object, total 80 were assigned, i.e. 40 of experimental group and 40 of control group from an institute in N-dong, Gyeonggi area, who has no cognitive impairment such as dementia and physically healthy. For the experimental group, total 24 sessions of square step program were implemented twice a week during 3 months, and as the result of inspecting cognitive function(MMSE-K) and the elderly's quality of life(GQOL) criterion before and after the implementation of program, following results were deduced. First, as the result of verifying difference change between before and after MMSE-K square step program implementation, experimental group appeared to have statistically meaningful difference compared to comparative group(p<.01). Also, in the situation when cognitive function preliminary mark was set as covariance, sum of MMSE-K, space orientation, attention concentration and calculation, memory retrieval, language function, understanding and judgment appeared to have statistically meaningful difference(p<.01). Second, as the result of verifying difference change between before and after the elderly's quality of life(GQOL) square step program implementation, among sub factors of the elderly's quality of life, experimental group appeared to have statistically meaningful difference in social relationship, physical health, environment, psychological inconvenience, physical stability(p<.01). Also, in the situation when the preliminary mark of each sub factor of the elderly's quality of life as covariance, whole sub factor social relationship, physical health, environment, psychological inconvenience, physical safety, mental and physical stability appeared to have statistically meaningful difference(p<.01). In conclusion, it was verified that after participating in square step program, the elderly's cognitive function and quality of life were improved.