The purpose of this study was to investigate trends in male choreographers’ work in Korean dance, as demonstrated in “12 Korean Contemporary Dance Choreographers’ Showcase.” For this study, the researcher observed the showcase before collecting and organizing critiques about the showcases from dance magazines, such as 󰡔Auditorium󰡕, 󰡔Performance and Review󰡕, 󰡔Dance Forum󰡕, 󰡔MOMM󰡕, 󰡔Dance Korea󰡕, 󰡔Dance󰡕, and 󰡔Dance and People󰡕. These articles were collected from performance pamphlets and related news in the 1990s or earlier from the Internet News Libraries (newslibrary.naver.com). The researcher also interviewed and communicated via email with the choreographers who participated in the showcase. The interviews included questions about background information in creating the work, the focus of the dances, and their points of view. From 1987 to 2005, a total of 15 male choreographers in Korean dance participated in”12 Korean Contemporary Dance Choreographers’ Showcase,” composing a total of 26 performances. Gook Soo-Ho participated in the showcase eight times, including two repeat performances. As this showcase emphasized premieres, Jeong Jae-Man had three performances, Chae Sang-Mook had two performances, and Kim Yong-Cheol had two performances. The Other 11 choreographers had one performance each. The choreographers demonstrated various themes in “12 Korean Contemporary Dance Choreographers’ Showcase.” Performances with the themes of fraternity and love for family included “By the River in North Korea” by Gook Soo-Ho and “Share” by Kim Seung-Il. Performances with themes of nihil and samsara included “Empty Boat,” “Gook Soo Ho’s Bolero,” “Garden of God Ⅰ- Nought (無)”by Gook Soo-Ho and “Mind Purifying Music” by Chae Sang-Mook. “Dance in the Sky” by Jeong Jae-Man illustrated the pursuit of an ideal, whereas “Sound of Dried Wild Flowers” by Chae Sang-Mook and “Light Wind” by Kim Yoon-Soo tried to overcome reality. There were also themes of exorcism (ritual ceremony) for the repose of souls: “Meditation of Myeonam” by Gook Soo-Ho, “Fever” by Im Gwan-Gyu, “Like Butterflies” by Lee Hong-Jae, and “Black Exorcism” by Kim, Yong-Cheol. Finally, there were themes of discovery of the ego and self-training, including “Danya (Red Bellow)” by Kim Yong-Cheol, “Shadow” by Kim Jeong-Hak, “Sad Song” by Han Sang-Geun, “Ego” by Lee Gyeong-Soo, and “Far Away” by Kim Nam-Yong. Since 1987, male choreographers in Korean dance have demonstrated unique performances in “12 Korean Contemporary Dance Choreographers’ Showcase,” presenting dance performances with religious and philosophical speculation. Generally, they emphasize themes about human beings and the environment. There are fewer female choreographers in Korean dance than male choreographers. However, female choreographers also try to show their spirit based on their lifestyles and experiences. As choreographers in Korean dance, they adopted the division of Korea and the Korean environment as a theme rather than showing the uniqueness of Korean traditional dance movements in developing Korean contemporary dance techniques.

This is an essay about restore of court dance by searching at activiies of Kim Cheon-heung, a great master of Korean traditional dance and music and a silent film made in the 1931. To the research, Jeongjae; traditional court dance performed by Kim and the restoration procedure are reviewed. Also the contents and utilization values of which offered appropriateness and confidence of Kim's Jeongjae project to audience. As a result, it was found that core of the Jeongjae restoration was Kim Cheon-heung, not documents of Joseon Dynasty, record paintings; Uigwe[ 儀軌 ] and Holgi[ 笏記 ]. This is because Kim was existence figure who served as a successor of Jeongjae since late Joseon Dynasty containing modern court music institute, Yiwangjik Aakpu. has the existence of justification for the very reason that Kim is entitled to restore Jeongjae. The restoration of the dance is divided into three parts; first is steps to expand repertoire of Jeongjae and restore dancing, second is steps to restore each processes of court ritual, and last is steps to develop new creative dance drama by using Jeongjae. In the third case, historical documents, paintings and film such as are paalied as a materials of creation. Also, in the restoration process, it was suggested that the beginning of the restoration work was made through historical literature, such Uigwe[ 儀軌 ] and Holgi[ 笏記 ], but eventually completed by creation. There is a limit to the writing or painting of a series of movements with continuous movements. It is only possible to create a gap between the cracks in this discontinuity, and Kim used the dance he had learned through his lifetime as a tool for creativity. Now we need to concentrate more on the creative exploitation of dance with Kim's achievements. First, for the future development of dance, the importance of dance and cultural sharing of dance worlds is paramount. Second, the dance majors should be systematically educated by Jeongjae as well as in elementary, middle and high schools. Lastly, Jeongjae should be used as a free ingredient rather than as part of a rigid court culture. I expect to study in neighboring areas such as dance academia, classical music, aesthetics, and theater in the near future.

With the prosperity of Chinese folk dance creations, especially the development of the dance performances represented by the Lotus Awards and Tao Li Cup, the technical skills of national folk dances are further promoted to a new height. Its development, however, generates two problems. First of all, the technical characteristics of styles are diminishing and tend tocome be homogeneous. Second, the pursuit of techniques with ultra-high difficulties makes the creative vocabularies hollow and devoid of content and typicality. This paper adopts the methods of investigation, observation and literature research to analyze the related technical skills in the creation of folk dances in Chinese dance circles. The purpose is to emphasize that the creation of Chinese folk dances should be traced back to their origins, and to bring forth new ideas in three aspects: stylization, emotionalization and artistry, starting from the characteristics of technical skills. In order to break through, its form should be more epitomous in culture and more typical in aesthetics. Only in this way can the technical skills of Chinese folk dances become truly prosperous.

This study summarizes issues related to copyright issues around dance or choreography in Korea. As a result of analyzing 42 previous studies, which was searched at RISS(Research Information Sharing Services), three major issues were aroused. First, the concept of dance copyright should be defined more clearly, and the requirements for recognition of creativity in dance works should be clarified. Second, in order to activate dance copyright protection, it is necessary to fix the ephemeral phenomena of dance in tangible media. Third, dance copyright is classified as a dramatic works in Korean Copyright Act, but the term is not appropriate. The main contents of this discussion reviews copyright law and precedents of each country, including Korea. Based on these discussions, a suggested improvement plan for the protection of dance copyright is proposed.

Recently the copyright issue in the traditional cultural field is being discussed due to the copyright claim on traditional dance. The copyright norms is unfamiliar to those who are engaged in traditional cultural fields in Korea. Despite this unfamiliarity, the number of cases in which copyright law is applied to the field of traditional culture is increasing. The copyright cases that have occurred in the field of literary works such as books in the past are now spreading to art, music, and dance. In this article, I have discussed some issues in judging the creativity and substantial similarity of cultural heritage-based works through representative cases of art works and musical works related to intangible cultural heritage. The copyright system is based on the assumption that a specific author has exclusive copyright for the work. On the other hand, many cultural heritages presuppose that ‘communities or groups’ have created, maintained and propagated them, and it is not easy to identify copyright holders because their boundaries are ambiguous. In addition, in order to establish an exclusive right such as copyright, a clear boundary must be set for the work, which is an object of rights, but the boundary of the traditional culture that has continuously changed from the past is not clear. Therefore, I suggest the open source model as an alternative to exclusive copyright.

This study deals with my autobiographical case study regarding motivation, process and aesthetic experiences that I, a professor in the field of computer education, had involved with creating hooded crane dancing. I collected data related creative performance activities such as photographs, videos, memos, dialogues, and pamphlet materials during 2017-2018 and projected live inquiries into a timeline as part of data interpretation. By adopting Artography, I illustrated major aspects of my performative experiences with live narratives as a single case study. The major emerging themes of this study are as follows. First, the case revealed pervasive and progressive passion and energy toward putting interests on knowing and understanding hooded cranes from ecological perspectives by mimicking their social behaviors and gradually tried out small performance events. Second, despite learning folk and court crane dancing, I could keep trying out to create my own versions of hooded crane dancing through connecting myself with nature from the perspectives of migratory birds. Third, this study showed the characteristics that described the process by which choreography work was developed and internalized through trying to understand the ecology of hooded cranes and sympathy with nature. Finally, arts-based inquiry may open up various genres of creative art forms for hooded crane dancing as part of research outcomes; for example, the follow-up researcher can present an autobiographic dancing for hooded cranes after collecting and interpreting her inquiries on hooded crane’s ecological stories.

The purpose of this research is to examine the historical development of the Korean-Chinese (ethnic Koreans in China) dance in China, and to examine the developmental aspects of the Korean-Chinese dance in Yanbian after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This research first defines the concept of the Korean-Chinese (ethnic Koreans in China) and Korean-Chinese dance. The Yanbian Korean-Chinese dance’s developmental aspects are divided in three stages: the Discovery and Creation of Korean-Chinese dance, the Development of Korean-Chinese dance, and the prevalence of Korean-Chinese dance. The characteristics that appear in the Yanbian Korean-Chinese dance’s development process is as follows.
 First, after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Korean-Chinese dance was closely related to the dance development of the civilian local community.
 Second, in order to transmit and spread the Korean-Chinese dance in Yanbian, an established education and training system for Korean-Chinese dancers was required.
 Third, the dancing culture that was publically spread and transmitted, had moved on to performance stages by performers and was once again spread to earn its popularity.