This study examines Gisele Vienne’s Crowd through the theoretical framework of Erich Fromm’s escape from freedom, analyzing how emotional control and the illusion of freedom are visually and physically represented on stage in contemporary society. The study adopts a multi-method approach combining literature review, live performance observation, and interviews, and centers its analysis on three sensory dimensions: music, the body, and space. The analysis reveals that the work, through the juxtaposition of fast-paced music, slow movements, and collective spatial flows, presents a structure of emotional regulation, the loss of autonomy, and a sensory structure of controlled freedom. These findings illustrate how Fromm’s mechanism of escape from freedom is sensorially embodied in contemporary art, and suggest that art can function as a space for critically reflecting on social anxiety and psychological structures.

In this study, I examined how the succession and modernization of tradition has been emphasized through the articles related to dance in North Korea’s comprehensive art magazine Joseon Art focusing on its traditionality and modernity. The research method was centered on literature analysis and image analysis. In the literature, from the first issue of 1956 to the first of June 2000, 344 out of 468 articles were reviewed and analyzed. The analysis revealed that the majority of articles has focused on the discussion on the issue of inheriting and developing the people's dance heritage among the anti - revolutionary dance heritage and ethnic classical dance heritage. Based on socialist realism as a principle in succession and development, discourses in the articles have emphasized revolution in contents and have tried to create dance based on national characteristics in terms of form. I can see that the articles have strived to present the dance as a means of educating people’s ideology. The contents discussed in the Joseon Art from the 1950s to the 1970s were found to be further developed in the later period. North Korea has developed dance that promote the superiority of the Korean people based on Juche ideology. It was found that the principles related to dance decided before the 1980’s have continued in the “invariant law”.