2004, Vol.14, No.14

The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.93

pISSN : 1226-900X / eISSN : 2713-9468
https://journal.kci.go.kr/krsds

This study was aimed to suggest reasons why dance eduction should be separated from physical education and why the direction of dance education should be considered as a symbolic activity. To solve these problems the bodily intelligence theory byHoward Gardner was analyzed. Gardner insists that bodily intelligence is an independent ability like linguistic or logical-mathematic intelligence. This idea is supported by many theories such as neurophysiology, anthropology and developmental psychology. Bodily intelligence can be used and developed in activities of dancers and athletes, but they are completely different areas, like novelist and lawyer who are entirely different each other in the linguistic intelligence. Dancers use action for their symbolic representation and athletes use it for their functional reason. In this point dance as a symbolic activity is separated from physical education of which main activity is sports or game. Until recently dance education has been considered as emotional activity. But when we follow the idea of Gardner it should be directed to symbolic activity.

This study has compared the dancing art and achievement of Prince Hyo-myoung and those of Louis XIV. This study could be performed on the assumption that there were many similarities between their political background and the achievement of dancing art. Both Louis XIV and Prince Hyo-myoung had their political purpose of strengthening the power of king in the socially chaotic period. Both of them made use of the dancing as a tool for strengthening the power of king; as a result, French court ballet and Chosun's court dance have been developed tremendously. Their dancing art has been used not only as a political tool, but also as a fundamental system for the dancing itself so that the dancing has become an art genre with fantastically aesthetic aspects. The comparison between the two aforementioned persons can be made briefly as in the following: first, the dancing art had political implication. Second, both of them have contributed to the development of dancing art. Lastly, they designated talented people such as Lully and Kim Changha. However, even if Hyo-myoung had the aforementioned political background and fantastic achievement in dancing art similar to Louis XIV, he has not been evaluated properly. In the rapid age of globalization, we will be aware of our culture that can be equivalent to western counterpart and develop it. In this regard, I hope that my comparative study on dancing art between Louis XIV and Prince Hyo-myoung gives us an opportunity to be familar with our culture and to have confidence.

International interest in cultural assets recently tends to focus on intangible culture. In this light, attention needs to be drawn to the inheritance of Korean dance, which is a kind of intangible culture. Korean dances should be valued largely from the perspective of an intangible dance cultural asset and a modern dance cultural asset. The dance cultural assets must be recorded and preserved, since dances will become extinct some day. It calls for the state to establish a performance artistic archives where dance cultural assets can be arranged and preserved in a systematic manner. In addition, a comprehensive system for managing performance artistic materials should be set up on the national level so that dance cultural assets may be identified, collected, and preserved on a systematical and permanent basis.