리처드 슈스터만을 통해 본 스트릿 댄스의 ‘실천적 미의식’탐구

Abstract

Street dance is a culture that actively solves one’s problem in the unique language of dance. It is a dance form that feels the convergence of life and arts through ‘body’, while recognizing and accepting cultural diversity and coexisting together. Black people, who were treated discriminatingly in American society, wanted to express ‘I’ as they are through street dancing transcending social status, religion, race, and institution, and to be recognized by the social members as subjective and reasonable being. Emotional support and open interchange relationships not only promote positive perception with others but also set us free. Street dance that recognizes the value of difference as individuality in the community with this horizontal relationship raises the atmosphere as the positions and roles of participants and observers are constantly overturned and switched. Street dance intends to make a subjective life through the changes from active practice, further from modern arts, which was regarded as physical and private through ‘pleasure’ that is sensual and arising from ‘body’. Street dance transforms the social and cultural perception that was treated as a competitive and ‘groundless’ culture into a daily experience as an arts, not resolving the cultural perception in a violent and inhumane way. The battle culture competing one’s skills through improvised movements, guerrilla street busking, etc. make people feel strange but vivid emotions through unpredictable events and situations, and provides an opportunity to change their daily lives into meaningful impressions. Street dance changes the daily lives to the basis of aesthetic experience and it is shared and spread through mutual intimacy with the public, not on a personal level. In addition, the role of observers who raise the atmosphere with active participation attitude in street dance is as important as the participants. They feel and express everything with an open sense, and show their impression to the participants (dancers) by using everything they can, including action, cheering, and making sounds. In other words, street dance strives to strengthen the mutual intimacy of recognizing cultural others and to lead the fast-changing trend of popular culture trends. Street dance is a self-expressive dancing culture while being related to others, and it pursues an empirical return to the everyday world from the art stuffed, being isolated from life in an art form. It restores one’s complete and unified aesthetic experience through subjective attitude. The practical aesthetic of street dance is to vividly revive the ‘body’ dimension, which is gradually being pushed to the back of civilization as being standardized and deepened diligence without self-reflection in modern society where speed is competitive, and to think one’s own existence by returning art to everyday life. Street dance is a symbol of a sensuous and changing life. In other words, the active practice of street dance is to correspond to the mobile street culture by throwing oneself into the world as a being potential in a changing world and it can be the reason for self-realization to achieve self-creation based on self-exploration.