@article{ART003248559},
author={Yoo, Gawon and Young Mi Kim},
title={Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -},
journal={The Korean Journal of Dance Studies},
issn={1226-900X},
year={2025},
volume={100},
number={3},
pages={83-97}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yoo, Gawon
AU - Young Mi Kim
TI - Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -
JO - The Korean Journal of Dance Studies
PY - 2025
VL - 100
IS - 3
PB - The Korean Society for Dance Studies
SP - 83
EP - 97
SN - 1226-900X
AB - This study examines how the South Korean administrative label “practical dance” organizes sensory practice and genre boundaries, often obscuring artistic potentials. Building on André Lepecki’s notion of contemporaneity, it reframes practical dance as a fluid, context-dependent practice that traverses commercial and artistic circuits and aligns conceptually with global usages such as commercial dance.
Using document analysis and three cases—Mourad Merzouki’s Pixel, Sadler’s Wells’ Breakin’ Convention, and the street-dance residency at France’s Centre national de la danse (CND)—the study shows how street- and industry-facing vocabularies merge with contemporary dance aesthetics and platforms. Findings indicate that inclusive naming, curriculum design, and welfare/eligibility policies can mitigate residual hierarchies, acknowledge labor conditions, and better reflect where dance is produced and circulated. The paper proposes a policy and vocabulary shift situating “practical dance” within a wider contemporary ecosystem of media, education, and public institutions.
KW - Contemporary Dance;Practical Dance;Street Dance;Contemporaneity;Dance Genre
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Yoo, Gawon and Young Mi Kim. (2025). Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, 100(3), 83-97.
Yoo, Gawon and Young Mi Kim. 2025, "Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -", The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, vol.100, no.3 pp.83-97.
Yoo, Gawon, Young Mi Kim "Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 100.3 pp.83-97 (2025) : 83.
Yoo, Gawon, Young Mi Kim. Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -. 2025; 100(3), 83-97.
Yoo, Gawon and Young Mi Kim. "Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 100, no.3 (2025) : 83-97.
Yoo, Gawon; Young Mi Kim. Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, 100(3), 83-97.
Yoo, Gawon; Young Mi Kim. Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies. 2025; 100(3) 83-97.
Yoo, Gawon, Young Mi Kim. Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -. 2025; 100(3), 83-97.
Yoo, Gawon and Young Mi Kim. "Reframing the Term ‘Practical Dance’ - Sensory Practices and Global Artistic Contexts -" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 100, no.3 (2025) : 83-97.
