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Aesthetic Value of Aristotle Catharsis in Dance Performing Arts

  • The Korean Journal of Dance Studies
  • Abbr : KRSDS
  • 2020, 79(3), pp.143-161
  • DOI : 10.16877/kjds.79..202009.143
  • Publisher : The Korean Society for Dance Studies
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Dance
  • Received : August 17, 2020
  • Accepted : September 18, 2020
  • Published : September 30, 2020

Young-Yin Chio 1 Miyoung Park 2

1단국대학교 대학원 문화예술학과 박사과정
2단국대학교 문화예술과

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ABSTRACT

This paper discusses the aesthetic value of catharsis in dance performances, focusing on Aristotle's theory of catharsis. The conclusion is as follows. First, catharsis as an aesthetic ideal that arises through emotional connection with the audience is an axis of aesthetic sense and aesthetic category, and performs overall aesthetic activity in dance performances. Second, catharsis in dance transcends the emotions of the audience through appreciation, eruption and purification of emotions, based on ethics and social utility that further solidify aesthetic values. Third, the heightened emotions of the audience regain peace while experiencing catharsis and form a virtuous cycle of social moral ethics. Fourth, catharsis has the ideal function of moral thinking by controlling and restraining inner emotions by purifying the mind and emotions of the audience with the effect of psychotherapy in dance performance activities.

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