@article{ART000978671},
author={CHOKISOOK},
title={A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance},
journal={The Korean Journal of Dance Studies},
issn={1226-900X},
year={2004},
volume={13},
number={13},
pages={253-274}
TY - JOUR
AU - CHOKISOOK
TI - A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance
JO - The Korean Journal of Dance Studies
PY - 2004
VL - 13
IS - 13
PB - The Korean Society for Dance Studies
SP - 253
EP - 274
SN - 1226-900X
AB - Western feminist writers have written much on dance and how it both reflects and comments upon institutionalised gender inequality and the imbalance of power. This relationship between practice and its ideological underpinnings is particularly pronounced in discussions on ballet. For example, Melbourne Goldberg (1987), in her examination of the representational politics of the pas de deux argues that, as demonstrated by the ways in which the male dancer manipulates his female partner, the ballerina’s dancing is crafted in order to appeal to a‘male gaze’.
The historical approach and unquestioning dualistic rhetoric of feminist scholarship on dance has, in recent years, been criticised by Western post-feminists such as Sally Banes and Alexandra Carter. Banes, for example, points to what she sees as three problematic areas in previous feminist analyses of ballet. First, a failure to acknowledge the socio-historical context of the fairy or folk-tale narrative structure. Second, a politically inspired stress on reading female representations according to positive or negative models. Third, an unquestioning adoption of the psychoanalytic model of‘the male gaze’.
Many of the key precepts advocated in this recent feminist discourse were reconsidered in this article where two Korean dance works were analysed: Kkocksin (1999) by Sang-gun Han and Pallae (1993) by Jeong-ho Nam. My method focuses on the dance as ‘text’, a materialist approach which, I claim, not only considers the socio-historical context but also avoids essentialist rhetoric.
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CHOKISOOK. (2004). A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, 13(13), 253-274.
CHOKISOOK. 2004, "A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance", The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, vol.13, no.13 pp.253-274.
CHOKISOOK "A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 13.13 pp.253-274 (2004) : 253.
CHOKISOOK. A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance. 2004; 13(13), 253-274.
CHOKISOOK. "A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 13, no.13 (2004) : 253-274.
CHOKISOOK. A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, 13(13), 253-274.
CHOKISOOK. A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies. 2004; 13(13) 253-274.
CHOKISOOK. A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance. 2004; 13(13), 253-274.
CHOKISOOK. "A Postfeminist Approach for Analysing Contemporary Korean Dance" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 13, no.13 (2004) : 253-274.
