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Aesthetic Perspectives on the Herodiade : Primary perspective on feminine truth by Nietzsche <헤로디아드>에 관한 미학적 고찰 : 니체의 여성적 진리를 중심으로 ×
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ISSN : 2383-5214(Print)
ISSN : 2733-4279(Online)
Asian Dance Journal Vol.37 pp.9-33
DOI : 10.26861/sddh.2015.37.9

<헤로디아드>에 관한 미학적 고찰 : 니체의 여성적 진리를 중심으로

Aesthetic Perspectives on the Herodiade : Primary perspective on feminine truth by Nietzsche

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Chang, Chungyoon

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyse and comprehend the aesthetic elements of Herodiade performed the premiere in 1944. For this study the piece’s content was apprehended from texts, the written sources. In addition, the study suggests the internal aesthetics and formal aesthetics explored from technique, movement skill and expressivity. As another aesthetic perspectives this study approaches to the choreographer, Martha Graham with a viewpoints of Nietzsche, feminine truth. The piece, Herodiade deals with the method of representational expression. The breathing as movement principle is found as an aesthetic element identifying the substantial life. The technique based on breathing accepts the emotional tension and senses, broadens the movement areas, and identifies the dance’s internal life in its expressiveness. The bird-formed sculpture stands for the ‘internal bird in mind’. This bird also stand for psychological tension of woman, in later part of the piece a dancer drift apart from it. Graham express herself the rebuilt life-world, solve out the psychological tension experienced in reality, by interacting with the significant bird-formed sculpture, and with another dancer’s role of nanny. In choreographer’s stance, the aesthetic of Herodiade is considered as an expressiveness, femininity, bodily experience and entranced phenomenon. The piece enable the lived experience of the grace, the unity of art and life. The contents of the piece stimulate to find out the meaning and aesthetic value from the loss of authority and power, individual emotion, entrance, and extreme world of sensitivity. The piece deals with the bodily experience of feminine world, implies the aesthetic element of the grace in aspects of recognition of greatness. It enable to meet a woman and her image of waiting the unexpected, wandering, as one aspect of human beings. The femininity conceived by Nietzsche is described as reinstate from masculinity. The woman for Nietzsche is considered positive, artistic, self controled. Nietzsche’s truthful viewpoints suggests a view of feminine world in accordance with the relationship of body and the earth. The significance of this study is on the rediscovery of femininity and its meaning.

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