This study examines the entire creative process of the dance work Dance Speaks for Me to articulate the choreographer’s stylistic approach and artistic philosophy. Using Practice-Based Research (PBR), the research analyzes the stages of conception, choreography, rehearsal, performance, and post-performance reflection. The findings reveal that dancers’ bodies function as active agents that generate narrative meaning through sensory experience. Sensory-based movement exploration facilitates the emergence of natural and organic movement qualities, extending choreography beyond formal composition toward philosophical and relational dimensions. This process identifies three core movement characteristics: immanence, narrativity, and resonance. The study further confirms that not only the final outcome but the creative process itself operates as a central choreographic principle. Consequently, the choreographer’s artistic philosophy and style are systematized around sensory awareness, while democratic communication between choreographer and dancers proved essential in fostering dancers’ growth as expressive subjects rather than passive performers.

This study analyzes the dance work “Concept” and how its creative process -- how it was planned, choreographed, and performed by the researcher. It examines how the core theme ”Concept” was expressed throughout the stages of composing, choreographing, and performing, and how the ‘dépaysement’ technique was utilized. “Concept” is both the subject and title of the work, while dépaysement is used to choreograph movements. The study investigates how surrealist expressive characteristics, thought processes, work intentions, and the dépaysement technique were reflected in each creation stage, using a practice-based research method. Results showed that in section 1, ‘The Layers of Memory,’ ‘isolation,’ ‘paradox,’ and ‘image as a visual form’ were used to create an optical illusion of dancer's movements. Section 2, ‘the Texture of Mind’, used ‘polarity of concept,’ ‘transformation,’ and ‘synthesis’ to show transformation according to changes in the movements. Section 3, ‘The Distance of the Street’, used ‘change in size’ and ‘a chance of an accidental meeting’ to achieve a harmonious combination of the object and the dancer. It is hoped that this article will inspire choreographers seeking new methods to develop their dances.

This article analyzes my dance work, Walk. It is crucial that dancers, as the main agent of dance art, embody their dancing as real experience and recognize their dancing bodies. This research questions if dancers, when becoming the principal agents of their bodies, experience bodily subjectivity differently from what they feel when they passively dance. The methodology used for this study includes practice based research and dance analysis. In terms of literature research, we examined the historical recognition and discourse of body in order to understand dancers’ bodily subjectivity. Practice based research refers to a particular type of inquiry that interrogates the whole process of artistic creation from the conception to the performance. For this, we analyzed somatic data that were generated in the process of creating my dance work Walk in order to illuminate the changing recognition of bodily subjectivity. When it comes to dance analysis methodology, we adopted Janet Adshead-Lansdale’s dance analysis model. The research’s findings are as follows. dance works Walk adopted bodily exploration early in the stage of practice, dancers could move their bodies with more integrity. Dancers in Walk showed individual differences in terms of their depth of recognizing bodily subjectivity as well as of the speed of experiencing their bodies. However, as they gradually experienced their own bodies, they became more confident and showed progress in performing creative movements. These analyses indicate that dancers as well as artists can recognize their bodies as active and subjective when an inquiry on bodily subjectivity builds on. The dance field in Korea has shown little interest in the significance and possibilities of bodily subjectivity. we hope this research would stimulate further inquiry on bodily subjectivity.

Based on the practice PBR (Practice Based Research), this study investigates the entire process from the planning of Frame in Gymnasium Hall I of Ewha Womans University on Jun. 7, 2019 to its performance. It means textualizing and historicizing a performance work overcoming the ephemerality and temporality of the dance

Referencing the concept of the analysis method presented in “Frame Analysis” (1974) of a famous American scholar Erving Goffman(1922~1982), Frame consists of three sub-themes, “assumptions,” “experience composition and frame,” and “basic keys.” The choreographic purpose of Frame is to deliver a message to form the choreographer’s own frame independently and actively, rather than to passively adapt within the confrontation of frame.

The results of this study on the creation, choreographing process and practice to its performance are as follows. First, Frame’s intention and subject of choreography was effectively revealed through the visual and auditory elements. Second, I could be found from immersion in movements through my inner workings and breathing. Lingering imagery of breathing and feelings could be felt during the practice and performance. Third, expression of the researcher’s life direction in Frame helped building the choreographer’s artistic world. This paper will provide an opportunity for the researcher to gain researcher’s capability of research and grow as an artist in dance creation field.