디지털무용의 경향에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study has provided new trends of digital dance by looking into the qualities of digital media which are dispersion and combination, virtuality, and interaction. By looking into the qualities of digital media, the researcher has discussed them as a new perspective on digital dance, and looked into the ways dance changes according to the use of digital media. First, the researcher could find different tendencies of movements and body on digital dance from existing theater dance. The hypothetical images created by computer technologies overcome the limits of movements the body has and also are able to transform by the distortion, stress, and reduction of body. Moreover, the certain traits of dancers’ movements are destructed and various ways of approach towards the movement language of digital dance are suggested by distortion of body,and contacts of body with surroundings. Second, the space time is dissolved and transcended and the actual dancer and the hypothetical dancer can co-exist in a third-dimensional space by the interaction between the dancer and the new computer technology. This is derived as hypothetical space and variation of structure. The researcher could find out that variety and complexity are amplified more than imagined by the interconnection of digital qualities, movements and various factors that construct the scene Third, the co-work through the network means that interoperability of digital technology has enabled the division of work and cooperation and efficient collaborative project. This collaborative project provides dancing materials and stimulates challenges, which has brought new creativity of choreographers and expansion of expression limits by active collaboration in choreographic works. Fouth, since the audience can freely participate in the digital dance on-line, the mutual contacts between dancer and the audience has brought active communication in a horizontal way. Also, the trends of mutual contacts which can be seen in digital interactive performances can be interpreted as art which is formed by audience themselves through digital media. This means that dancers form the performance by mobilizing the audience participation. Lastly, giving various meanings onto dance is another trend of digital dance. On the basis of qualities of digital media, the structure of meaning formation, such as impossible decision making, accompanies ‘something that can never be’. As a result, the researcher pointed out the probability of open and various interpretations. Also, in order to understand and interpret the digital dance works, overall awareness to percept interactivity of various factors is necessary. Consequently, when putting the digital dance together, the researcher provided that digital dance can be understood as the following: deviation from body causing diversification of images and movements and multivocal directing, virtual space enabling complex and multidimensional changes in time-space, and interactions resulting broadening of synaesthetic perception and forming new relations with the audience. Also, the recent utilization of digital media in dance has boosted collaboration in overall dance and artworks as a main factor forming new structure of dance, and aimed genre-over tendencies and process-based art works. Following study has a limit in dealing with every digital trends of dance. However, the researcher emphasizes digital dance is worthy of notice and suggests the extension of the dance sphere.