무용연극 ‘탄츠테아터’의 현대미학적 의의

Abstract

Tanztheater is a genre of contemporary dance with the combined form of two art fields, dance(Tanz) and theater(Theater), which derived from German expressionism in twentieth century. Yet, Tanztheater could be seen as a story type of dance through use of theater and dance together, but the dancing quality of Tanztheater cannot be questioned since it is based on the bodily figure of dance itself. Tanztheater as a genre of individual and independent contemporary dance shows a rapid progress with the character of avant-garde by German choreographers like Hans Kresnik, Pina Bausch, Gehard Bohner, Susanne Linke, Reinhild Hoffmann. It especially coincided well with Tenztheater as an avant-garde art with the contemporary notion of art that ‘art is something that gives a shock'. Such modernity of Tanztheater can be verified also from ‘artist art work appreciator', the basic structure of art. Therefore, this research will take a closer look at Pina Bausch's Wuppertal Tanztheater for Tanztheater's modern characteristics. Also, it displays characteristic of dis-genrizational contemporary art which aims for unified art through abstract movements and fragmented theatrical formation of plot by readily introducing artistic elements such as play, art, architecture, photograph, and more. In her works, the dancers act of one's own accord, resolutely expressing their creative ability as actors rather than playing dramatic character or manipulated expression of fictional role. This extends the territory of contemporary dance in the realm of aesthetics on artist through freely expressed body language of the dancer himself. Like this, Tanztheater, studied thoroughly by Pina Bausch, seems to pursuit novelty with experimental and radical property inside the aesthetical structure of ‘creativity-artificiality-receptionality'.