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The Politics of Short-form Dance, Autonomy between Norms and Power - Focusing on Judith Butler’s Concept of Performativity -

  • The Korean Journal of Dance Studies
  • Abbr : KRSDS
  • 2025, 99(2), pp.1~13
  • Publisher : The Korean Society for Dance Studies
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Dance
  • Received : May 15, 2025
  • Accepted : June 3, 2025
  • Published : June 30, 2025

Kim Hyun-Hee 1

1성균관대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to explore the embodied meanings present in the public’s performance of short-form dance. Centered on Judith Butler’s concept of performativity, the study analyzes five representative cases from each year before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Short-form dance functions as an alternative bodily performance that resonates with the shared condition of existential vulnerability, and as a ec-static practice through which the self is expanded. Within the loose structures of power, the public tends to prefer autonomous performance, and short-form dance co-evolves as an interactive yet distinctive mode of expression. This bodily practice enacts autonomy within the interstices of norms and power, acquiring political agency through a playful performativity that reveals the self to external norms and confronts them, thereby engaging with vulnerability

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