2015, Vol.52, No.1

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

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

Park Young-in, along with Choi Seung-hee and Jo Taek-won, is regarded as a central figure of Korean modern dance. This is because he had brought a new sensation to Korean modern dance and actively worked in a foreign nation, which was unusual when he was young. He has done many experimental performances, serving as a pioneer of modern dance. Nevertheless, he has never performed in Korea. He had lived in Japan, giving performances under his Japanese name Kuni Masami. Therefore, no in-depth studies have been carried out on him and his dance. This study examines his life with a focus on his early dance performances and explored how his performances in a foreign nation had been shown by Korean media. The study is significant in that it seeks a new possibility of studies of Park Young-in with a focus on his view of dance.

The purpose of this research was to develop a creative dance education model for grade-schoolers from multi-cultural families. A creative dance program of twelve classes was conducted for twelve grade-schoolers of multi-cultural families so as to verify the validity of the model. As a result of a survey, the creative dance education model materialized educational goals, contents and evaluation methods and organized by total three stages of self-awareness, movement expansion and emotional expression. Also,changes before and after the fulfillment of the program were verified in physical, emotional and sociocultural fields so as to verify the validity of the model. In the physical field, flexibility showed statistically significant results and self-efficacy test verifying the emotional field showed statistically significant changes in the intelligent field and the socioemotional field. The sociocultural field conducted a qualitative analysis through the interview with objects, and positive changes were shown in all of thefields.

As the society experiences a dramatical change, the concept and character of practical dance are also changing. Practical dance had passed a dark age in 1980's, however practical dance developed and changed with the influence of the needs of the times. Now, practical dance gets recognized its educational, social, academical values, and it meets a new spring. In the present situation, this study examines current status of practical dance in the society and analyzes the tendency of the developing practical dance. By analyzing previous studies and selecting data, this study finds that current practical dance has a tendency of specialization through University education, formation of performance as an art, opening new professional job positions These current tendency will continue and accelerate with the change of society and public culture. This study will have the value to shed a new light on a way to develop practical dance in the future.