근대 서구식 극장 설립에 따른 기생공연의 변모 양상

Abstract

A dance is a temporal and spatial art, and the space is an important factor of dance. The space of our traditional dance was changed rapidly according to the incoming of western culture since the late 19th century. The change was resulted the establishment of theater. The establishment of theater imported and fashioned a cultural art of western style in our traditional society and our traditional art was changing to westernized. This change was happened with the desire of enjoyment of civiliansʼ cultural art with increasing the foreign commercial exchange in Seoul. Also, the social desire established the theater of proscenium style. The establishment of proscenium style theater made to change the subject of performance. The classification of performance subject was changed with the active performance in proscenium style theater. The Gisaeng was classified with one who belonged to the theater and the other one who affiliated with union depending on the affiliation of performance subject. The Gisaeng systemed the art promotion and created new performance of art as a subject of performing art activation. Therefore, their activities have important meaning in modern history of dance. In addition, not only their purpose was an income, but also they performed as a voluntary social service. Those aspects were different from the subject of performance in past days. The Gisaengʼs activity performed in theater was a beginning of modern art performance and emerged the structure of dance performance with the theater establishment.