Jeonju Daesaseupcheong(Jeonju Traditional Culture Building), founded in 2021, introduces a permanent performance system and presents traditional art performances every Saturday. With the annual number of visitors to Jeonju Hanok Village currently reaching 10 million, if the Jeonju Daesaseupcheong's permanent performance for tourists is activated, it will have infinite potential as a traditional art content and will become an unrivaled performance. This study has examined the current status of permanent performances on Saturdays and sought ways to enhance them based on a SWOT analysis of the Jeonju Daesaseupcheong’s performance report and Steering Committee’s activities. The results of the study are as follows. First, a promotional marketing strategy needs to be designed, targeting tourists in Hanok Village as main audiences for traditional art performances. Second, pansori-based Changgeuk(Traditional Korean opera) can be developed into a permanent performance repertoire. Third, a development of participatory content creation is suggested to encourage local residents’participation. This study makes some important contributions to suggesting the operational directions for the permanent Saturday performances of the Jeonju Daesaseupcheong.

This study analyzes William Forside’s Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, Reproduced from a geometric perspective. This dance is a digital work presented through an online platform, which combines various fields to produce 20 objects. The work uses geometric forms to express dancers’ movements and spatial interactions in various ways. In our study, the interaction and fusion of art and geometry are explored by analyzing the dancers’ movements by means of geometric shapes such as points, lines, and planes. It analyzes how various patterns and structures are formed in space when dancers pass each other or make synchronized movements. Therefore, this study contributes to geometrically analyzing and understanding the dancers’ movements and their uses of stage space by combining dance and geometry.

The purpose of this study is to uncover the specific pro-Japanese actions of dancer Jo Taek-won (Japanese name Fukugawa Moto 福川元, 1907-1976), to improve our understanding of the history of Korean modern dance. Research was carried out through analysis of the Encyclopedia of the Pro-Japanese collaborator(2009), Report on the Truth of Pro-Japanese Anti-National Activities (2009), and visual data. First of all, I identified the collaborations with the Japanese Empire of Jo Taek-won. Jo Taek-won choreographed the representative pro-Japanese dance drama Buyeohoesanggok (1941.5.12.-16), and performed in other pro-Japanese contexts, including a number of Japanese military consolation performances for conscriptsand student soldiers. After liberation, Jo Taek-won took the lead in the dance world despite his pro-Japanese career, and after his death, a dance memorial stone produced through fundraising was erected. I argue that Jo Taek-won's artistic achievements and pro-Japanese activities should be taught together in dance education for later generations. In that sense, I suggested that an inscription containing the pro-Japanese history be added next to Jo Taek-won's dance memorial stone built at the National Theater of Korea.

This study examines the role and relationship of moving image among various art genres collaborating on dance performances. Six works by the Buripuri Dance Company, a private organization from 2004 to 2015, and 12 works by the Gangwon Provincial Dance Company, a professional organization, from 2017 to 2022, were analyzed 41 moving image clips were used in 18 dance performances. In this study, we collect and screen capture shots of 41 moving image clips out of 18 dance performace. We presented 12 expression methods that can distinguish the purpose and use cases of moving images from the perspective of stages, dancers, and audiences based on the contents commonly presented in six previous studies for work analysis. The 12 expression methods can distinguish the purpose and characteristics of the moving images for the dance performance. As a result, the most important reference point in the relationship between dance performances and Moving Images revealed in this study is the choreographer's intention. In addition, close collaboration between choreographers and video designers can not only improve the work's workability but also increase the understanding and immersion of the work from the audience's view. Therefore, this study is a records 20 years of choreographers and Moving image designers to create dance performances with high workmanship.

This study examines the significance of Korean performing arts history by focusing on the Little Angels’ organizations and management, the composition of the repertoires, and the meaning of international performing arts history. As a semi-professional organization, the Little Angels developed and operated the member selection musician system, and toured through overseas professional management in the early days. The repertoires of the Little Angels, including Korean traditional dance, music, and choral music were staged, established and systematized as the standard repertoires during the early activities of the cultural mission. Little Angels' dance was developed to be suitable for the children's group dances and the overseas staging of the new dance, and the choral repertoire, which included Korean folk songs and world folk songs played a major role in public diplomacy. As the only 'folk art troupe' among children's art troupes active in the international performing arts world, the Little Angels helped introduce Korean performing arts to the international audiences. Through the study of the Little Angels, a children's art troupe as well as a private art troupe with a 60-year history of international activities, this paper encompassed the history of Korean contemporary performing arts in a rich and stereoscopic way.

This study examines periods, characteristics, activities, and the significance of the 60 years The Little Angels, a Korean children’s performing arts troupe. The research was conducted through a literature survey, the review of primary data including concert programs, newspapers, films, and interviews with key informants. The troupe formulated members, management, and repertoires during its ‘Formulated Period,’ In its ‘Cultural Ambassador Period’ in the context of the International Cold War and nation-building, the troupe played its role as a cultural ambassador with the mission to dispatch Korean culture to the “free world,” beginning with the US, then Europe, Asia, and South America. In the ’Private Troupe Transition Period’ of the 1980s, the troupe focused on domestic rather than overseas activities, yet performed at major events like the Seoul Olympic Games. After 1991, during its ‘Peace Delegation Period,’ the troupe again concentrated on overseas performances in the post-Cold War context and toured the USSR, North Korea, China, and UN nations that participated in the Korean War. This study examines The Little Angels unique position and provides a rich and multi-dimensional views of contemporary Korean performing arts history as created by the intersection of global and Korean concerns.

This study explored the case of creating and performing “Suncheon Bird Flower Dance: Hooded Crane Meets Flower” by adapting the story of a hooded crane in Suncheon. The researchers obtained the following results by collecting and qualitatively analyzing choreography notes, photos, videos, memos, dialogues and performance pamphlets from August to November 2021. First, from the point of view of ecological art, we carried out choreography work for flower dance and hooded crane gestures based on sympathetic movements. Second, it revealed the convergent aspects of performance characteristics especially by using the photos of the hooded cranes in accordance with the live music performance for the scenery of Suncheon Bay and adopting a tea ceremony performance. Third, to implement the proposed creative crane dance, this case showed the transformation process of traditional Hakyeonhwadaemu in the scenes where the hooded crane meets and hangs out with a flower girl (woman) who is blooming and becoming a lotus flower.

This study introduces the online theater development case of the Nothing Theater, which Korea’s performing arts scene depressed by the COVID-19 pandemic developed based on the game engine Unity. In the online theater, choreographer Hur Yoon-Kyung’s Miniature Space Theater: Open Beta and Cha Ji-Ryang’s Only People Who Want to Leave See Everything were presented as online performances. This study seeks to present the possibility of choreography in online performances by analyzing the choreography and physicality as well as the relationship between performance and audience displayed in those works. When the stage where choreography is implemented and the human body as its medium are displaced into a virtual space, questioning the uniqueness of choreography opens the way for a new interpretation of and discourse on choreography. In the work of Hur, it was observed that the three designed theaters — virtual theater, performance theater, and sound theater were linked and combined through the audience’s movements. In the work of Cha, the audience moves in a three-dimensional space built by twisting and reconstructing a specific space. Suggesting the possibility of online performance, we demonstrate that choreography can be sensed through the composition of space without the physical body of performers and that the online theater can exist through the audience’s participation with their sensing bodies.

This study explores the primary issues in international performing arts exchange in the post-COVID-19 era. In our in-depth interviews with dance artists, each with over eight years of experience in international exchange before and after the pandemic, we witnessed the challenges and opportunities posed by the current pandemic situation. We used phenomenological methods to analyze the interview data. Our analysis revealed four problems: (1) the gap between live performance and recorded online performance; (2) the lack of equitable collaboration between artists and arts administrators; (3) the lack of diverse approaches and forms of support; and (4) the increase in barriers to international performing arts exchange. Our findings suggest countermeasures, such as: (1) balanced support both for live performance and online performance; (2) more flexible communication between artists and administrators; (3) adoption of more diverse and creative modes of international exchange; and (4) provision of training and education to promote artists’ access to and mobility in international artistic exchange.

This research is about the performances of Korean immigrant art troupe, from Russia’s Vladivostok maritime province (Yonhaeju : Prismorsky Krai), that visited Korea in the early 1920s. Initially the performances aimed to raise funds to build churches and help Koreans in Russia suffering from economic difficulties due to prolonged droughts and the civil war in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. However, the performances gained nationwide popularity, introducing Western folk music and dancing to Korea, which became the driving force in spreading a dance craze throughout the country. These performances significantly influenced the history of Korean modern dance, best exemplified by Cho Taek-Won who was first introduced to modern dance by the troupe’s performances and who became one of three new dance (Shinmuyong) pioneers. It is rare in the field of Diaspora Studies that cultural influences come from the outside the mother country, as in the case of the Korean-Russian art troupe. This research, from the perspective of the Diaspora (in the socio-cultural context of the troupe as they were caught between Russia’s civil war, in the period after the 1917 Revolution through 1922, and Korea under occupation by imperial Japan) shows the characteristics and meaning of the performances on the history of Korean modern dance, through analysis of performance activities and structures, member composition, the role of major leaders, and the troupe’s repertory of performances. At the same time, this study provides a foundation to understand the Korean Diaspora in Russia Like Lee Kang, Han Yong-Hun and Kwak Byuing-Gyu, the leaders of the Korean art troupe in Russia were leaders of the religious community who had participated in the Korean Independence Movement in the maritime province of Russia. Most of them were non-professionals and each group had a small number of members. Their art form followed “Estrada,” a typical people’s performing art which were popular folk dance touring performances in Russia at the time. In the history of modern dance in Korea, the significance of the performances of the Korean immigrant art troupe from Russia is as follows. First, as the initial overseas Korean performing arts group, they inspired Koreans to pay attention to the problems of overseas Koreans through the promotion of their visit to Korea; they helped build a national identity across borders. Secondly, this art troupe, as part of the Korean Diaspora, became a cultural bridge between people in Korea and Koreans in Russia. Lastly, the art troupe supported the Korean Independence Movement. However, the performances were forced to stop, for political reasons, by the birth of the Soviet Union on December 30, 1922. Research methods include literature and library research, field surveys, including existing literature in the National Russian Library of East Asian Literature, materials made from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs kept in the National Institute of Korean History, Dong-A Ilbo, Mae-il Shinnbo, and Sunbong, the Korean newspaper published in the maritime province of Russia.