@article{ART003388773},
author={Sang-cheul Choe},
title={Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse},
journal={The Korean Journal of Dance Studies},
issn={1226-900X},
year={2026},
volume={105},
number={3},
pages={157-174},
doi={10.16877/kjds.105.3.202609.157}
TY - JOUR
AU - Sang-cheul Choe
TI - Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse
JO - The Korean Journal of Dance Studies
PY - 2026
VL - 105
IS - 3
PB - The Korean Society for Dance Studies
SP - 157
EP - 174
SN - 1226-900X
AB - This practice-based study examines the dialectical circulation between the tacit knowledge embedded in the researcher's choreographic practice of Talking to Democracy (2025) and the critical discourse surrounding the work. Premiered in May 2025 at the Memorial for Democracy Movement (formerly the Namyeong-dong Anti-Communist Investigation Bureau), the work was remounted in October 2025 following critic Shim Jung-min’s review and an in- depth interview. Grounded in Schön’s (1983) reflection-in-action and Nelson’s (2013) research-through- practice methodology, the study first articulates the choreographer’s own working hypotheses, formed independently during creation, then examines how the critic’s post-hoc concept of creative regeneration of a tragic site dialogically re-named them.
Audience-reception data (N = 255) served only as a bounded, exploratory check on whether this concept was legible in audience self-reports, not as verification of artistic merit. Across seven scenes, the work reconstructed historical memory as bodily testimony through architectural-to-narrative transformation, metaphorical trauma representation, and a multisensory environment developed in collaboration with media artist Hwang Seon-jeong.
KW - practice-based research;dialectical circulation;creative regeneration of tragic site;site-specific performance;bodily testimony
DO - 10.16877/kjds.105.3.202609.157
ER -
Sang-cheul Choe. (2026). Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, 105(3), 157-174.
Sang-cheul Choe. 2026, "Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse", The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, vol.105, no.3 pp.157-174. Available from: doi:10.16877/kjds.105.3.202609.157
Sang-cheul Choe "Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 105.3 pp.157-174 (2026) : 157.
Sang-cheul Choe. Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse. 2026; 105(3), 157-174. Available from: doi:10.16877/kjds.105.3.202609.157
Sang-cheul Choe. "Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 105, no.3 (2026) : 157-174.doi: 10.16877/kjds.105.3.202609.157
Sang-cheul Choe. Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, 105(3), 157-174. doi: 10.16877/kjds.105.3.202609.157
Sang-cheul Choe. Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies. 2026; 105(3) 157-174. doi: 10.16877/kjds.105.3.202609.157
Sang-cheul Choe. Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse. 2026; 105(3), 157-174. Available from: doi:10.16877/kjds.105.3.202609.157
Sang-cheul Choe. "Creative Regeneration of a Tragic Site and Bodily Testimony: A Practice-Based Study of Talking to Democracy and the Dialectical Circulation of Choreographic and Critical Discourse" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 105, no.3 (2026) : 157-174.doi: 10.16877/kjds.105.3.202609.157
