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.

This study has considered focusing on the patronage environment of the process where Choi Seung-hee dance had settled down as the pioneer in modern dance ahead of its time based on her performance of current 105 research in 2011 including books, master’s and doctorate degree theses, academic and symposium journals. The patronage environment of Choi Seung-hee dance has been limited to Asian region while classified into domestic and overseas. The domestic patronage environment includes Choi Seung-il who has played the most important role in her family members, cultural artists and association surrounding An-mak (An Pil-seung), and media organization and so on, developing a positive patronage environment. In overseas environment, this study has concentrated on the formation of ‘the White Cross Institute’ which is an official title of the Choi Seung-hee supporters association in Japan, and based on the political culture and supporters’ environment in North Korea and China, the performance that described overcoming the wartime condition and the period of political tumult could be staged. Among the initiators of White Cross Institute (白十字會) who had begun the patronage activity at the onset of ‘the Second Recital of New Choi Seung-hee Dance,’ many artists, politicians, presidents of magazine publishers, and cultured individuals who are chosen as the top-notch in Japan such as Baku Ishii or Yasnari Kawabata. Especially, many of the nationalist leaders who had worked for the independence of Joseon Dynasty were included and gained public attention. As a result, at the base of the fact that Choi Seung-hee dance has become internationally famous, the supporters’ association, politics and media, and military support involving progressive and literary foundation starting from the open and modern education in the literary family background have formed a dynamic structure in the background. At the groundwork of such patronage environment, one could figure out that more solid philosophy of dance was founded to establish the system of creating works and the performance environment. In a personal aspect, the most meaningful result from this study is that this research is the first to disclose the fact that the title of the Choi Seung-hee supporters association is ‘the White Cross Institute (白十字會)’ and the title of the well-known photograph in which a woman is jumping into the air with a transparent veil on her hands in the field in autumn is ‘Jeokgu Heunmu (赤丘欣舞).’

To evaluate properly the performance of the dance education program, it is necessary to develop the evaluation model based on logical and efficient principles. In other words, it is needed to develop the evaluation model which can provide answers for key questions related to the performance of the dance education program. Then, the purpose of this study is to develop a systematic evaluation model in order to properly evaluate the dance educational program operated by Korea Arts & Service Education Service. To build up a systematic model for the performance measurement, the basic framework of the logic model is used, for the logic model has been widely considered to help evaluators design evaluation and performance measurement for various programs. The evaluation model derived in this study logically explains the structural relationship among key elements in the evaluation process, and provides performance indicators which make it possible to measure performance outcomes and impacts quantitatively. Using the suggested model, it is expected to find ways to improve the existing dance education program operated by Korea Arts & Service Education Service effectively and efficiently.

Requirements of research ethics education depend on leaners' position and major. This article investigated issues of dance, which is in distinctiveness as science of arts, as well as research ethics education, and then considered direction of education. Firstly, one of the issues is articles on a living person. We need to prospect contemporary artists but have to get out of directly hierarchical relationship. When viewing the person objectively, we can secure neutrality. Secondly, it is awareness as 'a scholar' who interacts with dance places and mediate between theories and the place. Lastly, it is plagiarism. Artists would know it in both works and articles. Plagiarism is the field which is prone to be infringed widely in both of them. To solve these issues of dance studies, education direction of research ethics should reinforce its subject, mark the writer rightly, and commonly use checking system of articles similarity for preventing plagiarism in advance. Subject of current research ethics should consider distinctiveness of dance studies and I wish it leads to training needs of dance studies intensively.

This study is on the eco-art from two dimensions, intentional and unintentional. As the cases of unintentional eco-art, the summer and winter ceremonies of Kwakiutl on west of Canada, written by Eric Wolf, and the winter ceremony Smila(Spiritual Dance) and related dances of Chehalis Indian Band are being considered. Unintentional conceptualization and realization as eco-art are investigated. The other one is on the intentional trials in contemporary societies for the integration of ecology and art. Cases of ‘performing nature’ are interpreted. Maehyang ceremony in Muan-gun tidal flat and related dance are considered. Rituals of Kwakiutl and Chehalis tell dances, as essences of rituals and as the subjects of expressions and communications, exist. The dances exist as the arts realizing relations between natural beings and human beings, realizing the transformation of natural beings, of human beings, of relations between human beings. Ecological relation between nature and man are realized from the immediate feeling and perception of bodily experience. The meanings of the relation are also produced from the feeling and perception. The term and concept of eco-art do not exist in these rituals. But realizing process of ecological relation and interaction is also the one of eco-art unintentionally. Body and dance are main subject and mediate of the process. Recently eco-art, the term has been used by some scholars and artists. But, in many cases the term is not used actually realizing eco-art. Some trials of modern art as ‘performing nature’, Maehyang ritual and dance as reinvented one composed of partial ideas from trasitional one are those realizing the issues and ideologies intentionally. As common phenomena in the two dimensions eco-art expresses ecological ‘relations’, not merely depicting nature. Commonly too, materiality of body and things on nature and human life, feelings and perception of them form the ecological relation.

An English terminology ‘community dance’ could be translated into Korean “Ji-yeok-sa-heo-ui-chum (Dance based Community)” or “Gong-dong-che-ui-chum (Communal Dance).” These kinds of community dance including “Ji-yeok-sa-heo-ui-chum” or “Gong-dong-che-ui-chum”, were nothing new at all, because they have been existed in every society and in every time. However, with boom of community dance in current Korean society, most Korea people are expecting that there are specifical meanings like ‘public concerns’ and ‘artistic value.’ Therefore, the purpose of this study is to define meanings of community dance while how this terminology is consumed by both in Korean popular society and Korean dance society. For this purpose, the researcher uses date analysis methodology. That is, the researcher analyzes data of news clippings and dance research list concerned with community Then, the researcher sums up the brief history of Korean community dance with external and internal approaches. In the historical approach, the researcher argues that how the term and methods of England community dance were combined with Korean communal dance. In the conclusion, the researcher suggests perspectives of Korean community dance.

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the artistry of choreographed by Kim, Baek-Bong from the view of ‘artistic beauty’ of G. W. F. Hegel. Since the first performance in 1959 at Won Kak Sa, has been transmitted and performed by her students. It has been performed for 6 minutes and 30 minutes; the order of compositions of the music for this performance is Jungmori in 10 beat, Jungjungmori in 12 beat, Jajinmori in 14 beat, and Hwimori in 70 beat; it starts with a slow tempo and gradually develops to a fast tempo. According to Hegel, ‘content’ and ‘form’ are the material components actualizing the art in the real world. The ‘content’, the expression of artist’s identity, consists of ‘Phantasie’, ‘Begeisterung’, and ‘Talent’, and the ‘form’, the method for logical expression of content’ consist of ‘Manier’, ‘Stil’, and ‘Originalität’. The content of is appeared through the creative imagination by natural subjects, snow crystal and cocoon, the inspiration consisting of internal motive, large flakes, and external motive, the necessity of designing a new work, and the unique capability(genius) for choreographing a group dance such as the number and positions of dancers and structural changes by musical and spatial compositions. The form of is appeared by the changes in linear form. The straight lines and curves in the work reveal the traditional patterns of group dances. Those lines secure the external formality through regularity, symmetry, and generality. Also, the uniqueness of is shown by the critical essays good at integrating and proposing the identity and characteristics of the work displayed at the title of this study. This study assures that is not only a performing art with good aesthetic content and form for artistic beauty but also a piece of art with educational value, as well as discovers the spirit of artist deep under its external splendor.