The purpose of this study was to examine the relative importance and priority of the components of a contemporary dance work aiming to boost the popularity of domestic contemporary dance performances based on expert opinions. It seeks to improve the harsh performance environment of contemporary dance, a major problem caused by poor financing, to contribute to dance performances in modern society. In the first stage, a survey of 20 selected dance performance experts was conducted using open-ended questionnaire to determine how to structure a dance work to increase the popularity of contemporary dance performances. In the second stage, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was utilized to carry out a pairwise comparison of the selected components to determine their relative importance and priority. The findings of the study were as follows: Eleven factors were selected as the components of a dance work geared to improving the popularity of modern dance performances, and 31 details were selected. The audience’s consciousness of the choreographer was selected as the top priority, followed by communicability, the completion and composition of work, sympathetic choreography, a communicable repertoire, the superb competence of the dancer, professional direction, diverse forms of work, the professionalism of the staff, public-friendly music, harmonious lighting/stage setting, and eye-catching costumes. If a dance work is based on the choreographer’s philosophy and possesses all 11 components suggested by the experts, it will exhibit artistic value and have popular appeal. Such an excellent dance performance will be fully appealing to the public. This study is of significance in that it investigated the opinions of experts to suggest practical advice on how to create a dance work to increase the popularity of dance performances. However, this study also had some limitations; for instance, the suggestions were only based on the perspective of individuals already engaged in dance performance. Therefore, sustained research efforts should be made to consider the circumstances and perspectives of other genres related to dance performance to enhance the popularity of dance performances.

The purpose of this study is to vigorously investigate international developments in Korean Dance by domestic private dance troupes. The study is based on the performance records of private international dance troupes from the early 2000s, troupes that were active since 1980. The Chang Mu Dance Company and the Didim Dance Company are among Korea’s leading performers and feature dancers who play a prominent role in the globalization of Korea by presenting performances that captivate audiences around the world. The recent Korean Wave may also trace its origins to the popularity of these dance troupes.

This study aims to examine the contemporaneity of performance archive and reconsider the historicality of dance, focusing on practice and theory in contemporary dance. For this, I explored theories and discourses that arose in contemporary arts, and I have analyzed the cases of archive practice. Over past two decades, choreographers in contemporary dance have experimented contemporaneity and history through archive practice. This study focuses on historical concepts of archive in order to find the meaning of the choreographer’s re-enactment. In this study, I refer to Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault’s proposal on history and archive to construct the theoretical frame of this study. “Actuality” in Walter Benjamin’s philosophy is heterogeneous time modes of the past and the present in singular moments, and it presents reality. Foucault suggests archive as a system of transformation and severance. He exceeds common perception of linear history with an archeological approach. To examine how choreographers apply archive to their work in a level of choreography and body as medium of dance, I have chosen the works of two choreographer: Yvonne Rainer and Boris Charmatz. Rainer uses the methods of “repetition” and “representation”, which transmit from one body to others in her . She suggests performative archiving to produce new creations in the process of returning to the original. Charmatz writes new history, which is established between dance history and a dancer’s memories in the present time. They both emphasized that a body is the subject of both dance and real life because every segment of history inhabits the body. Therefore, there are no distinctions between archive and body in dance. In this study, I discuss performance archive being toward embodied actualization with the choreographic approach. Performance archive is not only a form or style of dance but also questions, engagement, relationships, and enactment of the objectivity and subjectivity of dance. In this light, the choreographic is the way to create both dance and history.

Dancing elements shown in Namsadang Nori organizationally and technologically intervene dramatically expressed performances. The effect of dancing elements is to insert dancing elements appropriate for performance elements, to extend artistic expressive areas, to add the beauty of composition and of form to performances, and to enhance the artistic completeness of performances. In addition, dancing elements combined with arts include aesthetic values to express the vitality and personality of performances and highlight performance characteristics artistically beyond technical skills. For these reasons, dancing elements in Namsadang Nori as a cultural prototype embed considerable significances. The expressive meaning of dance and the extended artistic area speak to the present audience. They also serve as a performance content that diversifies dancing elements.

The purpose of this study was to examine the opinions of experts in dance performance about the barriers to the popularity of contemporary dance, ways to improve the popularity of it, and relative importance of an effort to seek ways of boosting the popularity of Korean dance focusing on Communication. It ultimately meant to improve the harsh performance environments for dance, which was caused by inadequate finance, in order to put performing arts of dance on the right track in the modern society. In the first stage, in-depth interviews were carried out to find out problems with performing arts of dance and how to resolve the problems. The subjects in this study were 20 experts in performing arts of dance who were selected by purposive sampling. In the second stage, a hierarchical structure was generated about how to increase the popularity of dance, which were found in the first stage. Third, analytic hierarchy process(AHP) was utilized to measure relative importance and priority. The findings of the study were as follows: Five areas and five methods were selected as a means to increase the popularity of dance on communication. Five areas were audience communication with the choreographers, communication of the artists and artists, communication between staff members, communication between the audience and the artists. As a result of making a pair wise comparison of the five areas, 0.282 with a significantly higher weight, the choreographer's identification of audience requirements was selected as the top priority. Second was to improve awareness within the dance community 0.170, third was a variety of ways to increase collaboration 0.120, fourth was a constitutional directions of unity for the work of the staff 0.095. Fifth, star choreographers and star dancers nurturing and hiring 0.086.

The contemporary notion of choreography as a structural system of human movements in diverse contexts becomes radically challenged in the context of digital performance. Digital performance works that do not necessarily have human dancers, but instead present digital images and sounds can hardly be seen as choreographic practices in an orthodox way. In this article, I primarily investigated how the notion of choreography is reframed in the context of digital performance by delving into the entanglement of choreography with a computational system. In creating an human-computer interface, choreographers shed light on how the human subject is perceived, cognized and embodied through the entanglement of its corporeal body and the machine. Then, their choreographic sensibilities substantiated in the interface design process do not constitute embodied knowledge of the human body as a biological organism, but that of the posthuman body as an integrated being of the biological and the mechanical. In this sense, I argue that postchoreography as a mode of choreography for the posthuman necessitates the understanding of how a machine perceives a physical input and acts upon a virtual world.

The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of a sensory integration dance program on motor performance in children with developmental disabilities. Participants were 9 people with developmental disabilities (mean age; 11±2.0 years) by using convenient sampling. The study was designed as a single cohort pre and post-test comparative study. The dance program was performed 12 sessions (12 weeks, with a frequency of 1 times/week for 150 minutes per session). Motor performance was measured by Bruininks-Oseretasky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT-2). Non-parametric tests, using the Wilcoxon singled-rank test for pairwise comparisons, were performed to evaluate pre- and post-intervention changes. As a result, manual coordination(p=.007), body coordination(p=.007), and total motor performance(p=.008) were significantly increased. Therefore, the sensory integrated dance art education program ‘Dancing artist’ was found to be a dance art education method that can improve the motor performance of children with developmental disabilities. These efforts are expected not only to develop a body that is a subject of sensory experience for children with developmental disabilities, but also to identify creative expression activities, artistic sensibility, achievement, free communication opportunities, and the possibility of growth as a disabled dance artist.

This paper focuses on North Korean restaurants as a medium of culture and tourism. Prior to the analytical discussion, the researcher first summarizes the concept of 'Munyae', which North Korea uses instead of culture, in order to understand the basic historical background of North Korean art policy. The researcher understands dance and art in North Korea as a tool to express the representative ideology of the revolution, as well as the performances, which operate inside the North Korean restaurants, serve as an important means to secure government funds for North Korean authorities. Based on the understanding of the North Korean art background, this paper examines the dual suppression mechanisms presented by the North Korean authorities, and discusses the effects of body politics on restaurant performers. According to the results of this study, the North Korea interprets their restaurant in Thailand as a transformative device to hide the function of the restaurant, which is used as a medium of political support for the communist country while placing it in the tourism industry category. In addition, the North Korea suppresses the activities of female employees, who are the actual operators and performers, in the overseas North Korean restaurants, while allowing performances coming from other countries. This dual power mechanism manipulates the female performers' bodies that can flexibly cope with other cultures that have been excluded from them, and at the same time expects their bodies tamed with socialist ideology.

The purpose of this study was to examine the cases of community dance in America and to find out how to revitalize local dance. For this purpose, Marylee Hardenberg, who played a major role in the Mississippi River revival through a site-specific dance performance, Pat Granny's Dance program for Prisoner called 'Keeping the Faith' and Brooklyn's Care for the disable in a community dance program by Mark Morris were examined. In conclusion, the methods of activating local dances include first, use of specific places to create site-specific performance, second, development of programs for prisoner which can communicate with local publics and third, development various community dance program for disable.

This study aims to examine dance exhibitions as a way of putting the dance archival theory into practice. For this, I explore performance theories which are relevant to a dance archive and look into two dance exhibitions, Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done by MoMA and Known Future by SeMA, which reflect the new performance archival theories. These exhibitions have three features. First, the present is one of vital matters in the exhibition. Second, tangible and intangible archive are acceptable. Third, visitor’s action is a part of exhibition. These features show a dance exhibition can be a way of putting the dance archival theory into practice. In addition, these two exhibitions show that a dance exhibition is an effective way to hand down a valuable dance to next generation, because less time and space constraints than a performance can make more people have diverse experience about dance. I suggest that a dance exhibition is a good way of putting dance archival theory into practice.