2015, Vol.57, No.6

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 paper explores the meanings of disability dance in Fin Walker’s The Journey (2005) and Athina Vhala’s In Praise of Folly (2005) of Candoco Dance Company. There are limited understandings of disability dance in South Korea -- regarding disability dance as dance education and therapy for the disabled people, or from the perspectives of sympathy, discomfort or human victory. Therefore, drawing on Candoco-related literatures, websites, DVDs, pamphlets, and reviews, I discuss disability studies, three models of disability (medical, social, and cultural model), and Japanese Able Art & British Disability Arts Movements; and I investigate the concept of disability arts and their challenging ways of representations of disabled people. Then, I explore the mission statement, performances, auditions, and activities of Candoco, and analyze the meanings of disability dance in the two works. I argue that Candoco’s disability dance challenges stereotypes of disabled people and recovers their subjectivity, reconstructing dance aesthetic issues.

The aim of this study is to suggest the implications of social contribution activity of dance art and corporation in the artnomics era by analyzing the cases and categorizing main activities. This study focuses Art & Business project of Korea Mecenat Association. The results of this study are as follows: First, the yearly analysis shows that it is extremely rare for a corporation and a dance art organization to sustain and prolong their alliance for a long term. Second, the detailed project analysis shows that it tends to countermarch for the balanced development of detailed project due to low performance of alliance project with major companies over middle and late phase of Art & Business project. Third, the case analysis proposes four types of social contribution activities of dance art and corporation, which comprises ‘purpose of social contribution’, ‘purpose of marketing’, ‘purpose of welfare benefits’, and ‘purpose of cultivating the talented person in art’.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how school maladjusted adolescents’self-concept factors affected their peer relationship, after they participated in a dance/movement therapy program. The subjects of this study were 97 adolescents, who were referred to a dance/movement therapy program, since they had school maladjusted issues. The dance/movement therapy program of 12 sessions was consisted of four stages based on Erikson’s psycho-social development theory. Three groups were delineated by the frequency of dance/movement therapy participation. Results of this study indicated that the low rate of participants showed a low relationship with the self-concept factors and peer-relationship. Meanwhile, the middle and high rate of participants demonstrated a significant positive relationship with the personal initiation and the peer-relationship. However, a negative relationship with the self-esteem and the peer-relationship was found in those groups.