근대 전통춤의 형성과 민족주의적 성찰

Abstract

This research aims to examine the duplicity and contradiction of Korea's traditional dance in Korea's modern times and to suggest the direction of philosophical foundation for Korea's traditional dance that is desirable and sustainable based on nationalism which inspires Korean people's pride. The traditional dance has the following features: (1) a pursuit of dance as art through the creation and modernization of Korea's traditional dance and its stage, (2) the emergence of professional choreographer of Korea's traditional dance, (3) the elevation of the status of dancers of Korea's traditional dance, (4) their performance in one stage due to collapse of own stage of court dance and folk dance, (5) Seong-Joon Han's collection, re-creation and performance of traditional dance, and (6) contemporary classification of modern dance such as Seung-Huy Coi's New Dance. Korea's traditional dance in Korea's modern era has created the today's dance culture on the current of historical and social change. The idea of nationalism to establish Korean people's national identity was strongly on the rise in Korea's modern times. This idea influenced Korea's traditional dance and treated New Dance, a dance with a new form, as a material and form of the traditional dance, together with an effort to preserve the traditional dance in spite of the obstructive policy of those day's Japanese government. However, this had limits; those day's people did not recognize the essential element of the idea but used it just as a form of art in itself, and finally it was gradually showing a pure art-oriented tendency due to the Japanese government's intention. Nevertheless, we consider as a positive aspect the fact that Korea's traditional dance had an independent form of art in Korea's modern times. In conclusion, we can draw from this that Korea's modern history exerted a decisive influence on characteristics of Korea's traditional dance.