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A Study on the Choi Seung-hee’s National Dance Studio’s Concert Tour of the USSR in the 1956-57 and the Glocality of the Dance Works

1956-57년 국립 최승희 무용연구소의 소련 순회공연과 공연작품들의 글로컬리티 연구

Yang Mina 양민아

DOI:https://doi.org/10.26861/sddh.2021.60.213

Asian Dance Journal
Vol.60 pp.213-242

Abstract
A Study on the Choi Seung-hee’s National Dance Studio’s Concert Tour of the USSR in the 1956-57 and the Glocality of the Dance Works ×


The purpose of this study can be divided into two. The first is to clarify the detailed schedule of the concert tour of the USSR, which was the last schedule of the Choi Seung-hee’s National Dance Studio, dispatched to the Eastern Europe tour in September 1956. This clarification includes an identification of the purpose, signification of this concert tour and the dance works. The second is to analyze the phenomenon of Choi Seung-hee’s glocality in her dance works based on the trends of her creation in the 1950s and the Soviet audiences’ reception of her works.



The Choi Seung-hee’s National Dance Studio held a concert tour of the Soviet Union for 44 days from November 30, 1956 to January 12, 1957. In this tour, the North Korean government had a political purpose to advocate North Korea's position among socialist countries and to strengthen the solidarity among them.



After Choi Seung-hee’s return to North Korea, in the form of her works she used the stagecraft of Soviet ballet for her choreographies of North Korean dance. And In the content and subject of her works, she pioneered the North Korean dance drama “North Korean Ballet”, which dealt with socialist patriotism and proletarian internationalism following socialist realism. In her other dance works, she portrayed the North Koreans’ wise, optimistic, and diligent lives and showed the model of North Korean socialists. Although foreign audiences’ reception was different, her artistry was recognized in Eastern Europe, including the USSR, and caused a great repercussion.


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