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Nietzschean Critique of Reason and Its Reflection on the 20th Century Modern Dance

MalborgKim 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

Friedrich W. Nietzsche regarded dance as the hope of salvation of man from the ceaseless pains of life and a synonym of the creation of art which justifies the existence of man. This study discusses the influences and the reflections of Nietzsche’s thoughts in the modern dance of the 20th century. Isadora Duncan, Merce Cunningham and William Forsythe are chosen as the most innovative choreographers of the 20th century , and the characteristics of their dance ideas are interpreted as the influences and reflections of Nietzsche’s thought. Duncan’s dance represents the intoxicating dance of Dionysus. Cunningham’s dance works reveal the free spirit of enjoying chances and casual thinking. Forsythe’s performance installation works can be seen as the case of performing the ‘art or body which practices the creation of their artistic existence’, which I argue as the Nietzschean ‘artistic justification of human existence.’

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