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An Analysis of Healing Aspects in a Community Dance

  • The Korean Journal of Dance Studies
  • Abbr : KRSDS
  • 2019, 73(1), pp.207-223
  • DOI : 10.16877/kjds.73.1.201903.207
  • Publisher : The Korean Society for Dance Studies
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Dance
  • Received : February 13, 2019
  • Accepted : March 13, 2019
  • Published : March 30, 2019

Seok Jin Han 1 Kim, Hyunjung 2 Jeong Yunkyung 3

1한국예술종합학교
2충남대학교
3한국예술영재교육연구원

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ABSTRACT

This paper aimed to explore meanings of healing in You are Living in Babiretta Now (2018), a community dance work, which has drawn much attention from Korean dance scene since its 2012 premiere, due to its audience participation and long-run performances. Drawing on literature review, analyses of live performance and DVD, pamphlets and dance reviews, interviews with a choreographer, and audience survey and statistics, this study proved that the dance work’s constitutive elements including dance, song, storytelling and audience participation had therapeutic impact on the audiences, particularly what I. D. Yalom calls ‘universality’ and ‘catharsis’. This paper also provided theoretical bases for better understanding community dance, relating the aspects of healing in the work to therapeutic meanings in aesthetic experience.

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