This paper examines the ways commercial screens use dance and analyzes the meanings that dance actually produces, focusing on the love reality TV show called "Somebody", which was broadcasted on a cable channel Mnet from November 23, 2018 to February 8, 2019. By referring to the sociological analysis of Eva Illouz. I observe how “Somebody” applies and utilizes the two elements of physical sexiness and emotion, which are pointed out to be the most important requirements in the architecture of romantic choice by Illouz. “Somebody” actively uses dancing as a display of sexiness, which consists of the body, movement, and physical contact. Also, “Somebody” emphasizes dance as a space for identifying and expressing the authenticity of emotion. This kind of display has the effect of institutionalizing the popular imagination about dance with its stereotypes bounded with love and sex. However, the reactions of the viewers, which are revealed through the comments on internet, and the professional dancers’ words and behaviors show a possibility of an oppositional reading of the program.

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.

This study mainly focuses on audience development of dance festivals by applying 7Ps Marketing Mix in the Seoul Dance Festival, which is the first dance festival in Korea. The whole performances in the 39th Seoul Dance Festival(2018. 10. 22 - 12. 04) were sold out, and the festival was evaluated as one of the most successful dance festivals in its history. 7Ps Marketing Mix is the set of marketing tools consisting of Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Physical Evidence and Process. According to this analysis, the festival has succeeded because of its qualified programing, aggressive promotion, well-equiped venues, suitable environment, well-trained staff and reasonable ticket prices. To enhance its popularity for the dance festivals, the festival shall collaborate other dance groups which would open their shows during the festival period, manage specified SNS contents, plan the outdoor events before and after the main shows to set the festive mood, make the specialized ticket prices for the festival, manage volunteers more effectively and adopt e-ticket reservation system. This study aims to be a basic marketing resource for the future audiences development in the Korean dance festivals and the dance field.

The purpose of this research is to provide insights into the essence and value of dance education by describing the teaching experiences through an auto- ethnographic method. It is difficult to find researches on the overall teaching experience ranging from early childhood education to college education. Having experienced child dance class, elementary school dance class, and college movement class, I seek to find the desirable education and its significance for students while reflecting on dance teaching method and its meanings. Students get interested in their body parts, and they learn how to communicate and share their feelings with others through dance education. The performance experiences as a dance teacher are as follows. First, a natural culture at home or a home atmosphere has formed through learning-by-playing. Second, my first part-time class has led to my lifelong workplace and developed functionally. Third, I have found that a strict discipline in a dance class could give difficulties for students to express freedom. Fourth, a dance class that gives joy and pleasure changes students’perception of dance, makes them more interested in their bodies, and have more confidence with dance. In conclusion, I have realized that a dance class enables students to widely understand various emotions expressed by the body, discover ‘self’ through this process, and it can be developed into a means of communication to form a community spirit.

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.

Copyright refers to the exclusive and monopolistic right, being given to the creator of creative works that includes literary, artistic or musical ones. According to the present copyright law of South Korea, dance is categorized as a kind of theatrical works, but it is necessary to discuss whether or not such a classification is appropriate. Of course, both a dance and a theatrical work can be classified into performance arts as the two genres are most closely adjacent to each other. Since dance and play have their distinct characteristics as unique genres, however, the application of a copyright should be made from different perspectives. This study aims to examine the importance of establishing professional and concrete regulations with regard to the dance works and discussing what to consider for that purpose. One of the foremost and top priority concerns for the dance works in the nation is that the domestic dance community should come up with its own copyright regulations independent from the theatrical works. As the present copyright law for the theatrical works does not consider the unique characteristics of dance such as choreography, it is hard for the domestic dance community to properly claim and exercise its rights. Therefore, independent copyright regulations are urgently needed to protect the specialized rights for the dance works apart from the theatrical works. As part of the efforts to better protect the rights for the dance works, it is also necessary to submit the storyboard of choreography or the video clips to help meet the requirements of the copyright law. It is necessary to reestablish the proper regulations for the copyright for dance after having technically and concretely examined the characteristics of dances performed in the nation and ultimately to work for the revision of the current copyright law for dance.

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 aims to explore the performativity of dramaturgy with in the field of expanded choreography. I look into the concepts of expanded choreography after the 1990s and discuss Jeroen Peeters’s dramaturgy in the respect of performativity. The characteristics of expanded choreography are as follow. First, choreographers are capable of producing knowledge rather than an artifact. The knowledge that can be produced is not rigid but more comprehensive. Second, the choreographers carry out experimental choreography with the paradigm of interdisciplinary and meta-media performing arts. They All the collaborators can be considered as an author which used to be given to only choreographers. Third, many choreographers attempt to explore the relationship between the body and society. They consider the social engaging of dance into the choreography. To examine how dramaturgs elaborate their own performativity in the area of expanded choreography, I have chosen the physical dramaturgy of Jeroen Peeters. I found results as below. First, a theory can be discovered in the choreographic practice. Materials can be chosen not only body gestures and movements but also other media, philosophy, and theories. Second, the dramaturg should approach to the process of choreography with empirical research. The practice of dramaturgy is involved in embodied thinking, in structuring, and performative operation of whole process. Third, the role of dramaturgy is performatively changed in every individual work. In contrast with the classical dramaturgy, the new dramaturgy in contemporary dance not deal with the abstraction of knowledge but practice in the way of performativity.

This study focused on the transformation process in which the traditional dance of Korea created new content and forms and wrote modern cultural discourses after the appearance of a modern theater. The construction of a theater established a modern value system including the perceptions of time and space, formation of a consumption structure, and emergence of the audience in a horizontal order. These changes happened around theaters such as the Mudong Banquet Hall, Hyeoryulsa, Gwangmudae and Danseongsa in Korea, and these spaces attracted the attention of the public through the changes of their microscopic repertoires mostly based on the traditional arts. They held values as they provided the public with aesthetic objects to be enjoyed and created a new cultural tradition through the gradual transformation of the culture. The traditional performance arts communicated with the public and moved forward by making an adjustment into stage performance arts in the middle of microscopic transformations that included the star system based on two Gisaengs of Gwangmudae, Ok-yeop and San-ok, a series story in a newspaper called "Yedanilbaekin," and long-term performance of Gangseonru.