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.

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.

The interface of technology tends to limit human movement as the body adapts particular movement patterns to interact with a machine. The multi-touch gesture interface employed by a smartphone also demands a user's certain movement patterns in order to deliver his or her tactile command to the machine more effectively and efficiently. This study aims to observe and analyze the movement of smartphone users and to identify its characteristics associated with the use of such a device. To demonstrate this, 30 second-long movement samples were collected from three different smartphone users and fully investigated at a micro and macro level based on Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals (LMA/BF). The findings of this study suggest that smartphone users tend to stay in the same Shape Form with the same size of Kinesphere for a period of time and use distal parts of the body with relatively small movements. The actions frequently performed are touching and sliding, which mostly show one-dimensional directionality; and stillness. In sum, the Inner/Outer movement theme is predominant in the context of using a smartphone as users exist in the inner world or make a bridge to the environment by attending to the device or to themselves according to different inner needs to manipulate the device or to take information from it.

This study examines the trends related to dance as a performance art during the early period of the Soviet Union, a time in which art was broadly used for public enlightenment, the promotion of socialist ideology, and national integration and establishment in the 1920s and 1930s. Dance in this period will be investigated with the aim of determining who produced and appreciated dance performance, the format and genre of the dance performances, and the themes and contents of the performances. Throughout the 1920s and 30s, efforts were made to develop a new form of art that would be appreciated and accepted by Soviet people from various social classes and would help to lead the newly born country, based on Lenin’s idea of popularizing art for the general public. It was a critical period that shaped the characteristics, format, and direction of performing arts in the Soviet Union. In looking at this period, three phenomena stand out. First, ordinary people emerged as both producers and viewers of the performing arts, and an amateur performing arts group (Soin Yesuldan) became popular. Second, Estrada and folk dance became popular during this period among the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural people of the Soviet Union, which greatly influenced the birth of a folk dance company with ballet choreographers. Third, at a meeting of the Pan-Soviet Writers Alliance held in 1934, Gor’kii M. declared that socialist realism should be the principle for creating Soviet art. Subsequently, young Soviet ballet masters developed new forms of ballet in which the themes and contents were in accord with the government agenda. Dance as a performing art in the early period of the Soviet Union greatly influenced not only the art movements in other socialist countries but also Minjok and Minjung chum in Korea in the 1980s and 1990s. In this regard, future research should investigate how dance formats and characteristics from the Soviet Union have been accommodated and reflected in Korean Minjok and Minjung chum.

Traditional art genres have been differentiated and developed as new types in a 21st century that is already accustomed to diversity. In particular, modern art was grafted to digital media to escape the negative limitations of the traditional class to enjoy something through an expansion into popular culture with de genre. As a result, the art world was able to determine how to promote this expansion, leading to a fusion and reinvention through “communication and integration” between genres. Recently, the attempt to develop a research-intensive genre has been progressing by grafting arts genres, differentiated under a paradigm called “The same starting point,” through exchanges and convergence. Particular attention has been given to grafting the characteristics of modern poetry to dance creation and performance in a fusion of literature and dance. This fusion can be divided into two types based on the intertextuality of the two genres. One is poetic dance, with the poetry-dance concept expressing poetic nature through dance, while the other is the dance scenario poem, with the dance-poem concept focusing on performing arts. Though the two concepts are not independent art genres, from the viewpoint of fusion and re-creation, they can be evaluated in terms of how they individualize dance’s deep poetic soul and poetry’s dynamic symbolism. The purpose of this study is to establish creative methods for poetic dance drama, with the essay focusing on creative process methods for three dance poems using a typed person with repose of souls through the symbolic images of Kokdugaksi Norum, which is a traditional drama, in convergence with the plot of ssitgimguk (a shaman ritual for cleaning a dead person’s soul), which is a folk ritual of sacrifice, and modern poetry. In Chapter 1, for the conceptual definition of poetic dance drama, the prior research on the intertextuality between poetry and dance will ber reviewed, while Chapter 2 will premise the creation of poetic dance drama, analyzing the story and character structure of “Lemuralia” in order to apply in earnest the relationship between a ritual of sacrifice and original art to creative activities. In Chapter 3, the essay will explore creative methods through the analysis of actual poetic dance drama. It aims to expand the arts in modern society by encompassing an emotional re-convergence with different arts genres from traditional society. In order to complete the poetic dance drama, Kokdugaksi Norum, conducted in this study, this researcher summarizes the creative methods of poetic dance drama mentioned above according to three points of view. The first is a mix between arts genres that borrow from Korean culture. The second coordinates poetic creation and the language arts within a process for broadening our understanding of the symbolic and dynamic movements of dance, body arts in terms of recognizing performing arts. The third fuses poetry with dance in combination with dynamic images to recognize the poetic soul and to identify the possibilities inherent in communication, individuality, and the convergence of arts genres in terms of creating community awareness that can be interpreted as an object of symbolic meaning.

One modern dancer at the forefront of the art is SongBeom. Numerous studies have considered his life and work activities. However, an error exists, citing incorrect records. This research reconsiders the records of newspaper news organizations working on the agencies. SongBeom was established in the National Dance Company and played a major role in the 1962 writing style. Meanwhile, he demonstrated creative experimentation in Korean dance, helping to create a new framework. Paper records show that he entered the world of dance as an opportunity during a decisive time. He demonstrated endless enthusiasm for show. Not only can we check his newspaper records to clarify the title and year, we now can also consider his work and identify the notations. Performance on a performance advertising, unlike these days. Newspaper articles still contained some errors, but data are sound in terms of the work years. Even though he gross change in his microscopic, even if we approach Chuminsaeng can check the newspaper. It's a dance thing of a time of his activities through to become an opportunity to read the flow.

Expressions of literature or fine art create work that leaves a distinct record. By comparison, the performing arts never create work that remains afterward. Performance is a momentary art shown only in the present, and it is never affected by anything after the show. Performing arts are solely present at the time and place of a performance, making it practically impossible to preserve and store the work. In fact, maintaining and preserving the actions performed on scene has become an unresolved question in the world of performing arts. In order to maintain and preserve such moments, artificial interventions are essential, such as taking photographs or making videos. This paper aims to discuss some theoretical issues that should be taken into account in the process of documenting the performing arts. This paper will first discuss the authenticity of performance in terms of the object of documentation. Authenticity is a concept related to the identity of work. It will continue by examining Margolis’s theory of arts before exploring suitable media to record performances, such as records, body, memory and repertoire. Lastly, this paper will raise a question as to how to reflect aesthetic elements that need to be considered along with other factors in performance documentation. Ultimately, this paper suggests that performance documentation should begin to recognize the gap between performance and record. Such an approach should integrate ethnography and narrative.

This study aims to investigate the activation plans of Korean cultural artists through the modern reception of performance art and to design a new conscious transition of traditional art into popular art. Today, the Seoul Performing Arts Company is a group representing Korean art with unprecedented experiments involving external and internal changes. This study examined the developmental plans of the Seoul Performing Arts Company and its comprehensive artwork, including singing, dancing, and music. The study employed Microsoft Excel, a data processing program, to summarize the list of performances by the Seoul Performing Arts Company and to analyze the three genres of singing, dancing, and music. In addition, the company performers were interviewed about the meanings of modern singing, dancing, and music. These study methods allowed investigation of the characteristics of traditional art genre with singing, dancing, and music as well as the direction and strategic aspects of comprehensive art. This analysis seeks to reorganize perceptions of traditional art as public art exceeding the boundaries of genres in the performance industry while continuing to create comprehensive Korean artwork containing a mutual communicative structure.