This study is to trace the fundamental structure of how PKIP, which was developed by Anna Halprin, a dance educator, artist and the founder of Tamalpa Institute, is experienced by dancers. For this, we have searched the background in which PKIP was created and its work structure and executed a qualitative research on dancers’ experiences. Five professional dancers with their experiences of more than ten years in dancing and over six months in PKIP were selected as study participants. The study participants’ experiences through PKIP were divided into three main topics i.e. the penetrability among media, images as the inner teacher of creativity and the creative transformation of emotions and again, each main topic could be divided into two sub-topics. Through PKIP, the study participants experienced the whole system where they realized that their movements generated interactions between the inner images coming across the dancers’ minds and the outer images in drawings or poetic languages, and through these interactions, they came in and out of two or three different art media’s areas freely and let the media’s influences inter-penetrate each other. Also, they found out images were activated as their inner teachers of creativity. Through PKIP, they discovered the inner tensioned voices commenting on their own movements and could realize that creativity which they have as dancers expanded as they trusted their subjective images. Lastly, the study participants confronted their emotions in a different way from the ones they experienced in general dance performances and this became the resources for their new, good-quality dances, and also PKIP provided each of them with an important private area that the participants might have as dancers because PKIP dealt with their emotions just directly; the participants perceived all these they experienced as their importance experiences.

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.