치매 어르신 무용 체험의 확장성

Abstract

This researcher regards contemporary dance as a system of accumulating the forms of life and focuses on the properties of dance experience within the contents and results of communication with dance. The purpose of this study is to examine the accessibility of dance based on the dance cases of the aged with dementia and the possibility of dance experience in the process of communication (sharing). The contents of this study are as written below: Dance experience is shared by the moments of expression to connect and combine the senses with the units that consist of our lives. In order to legitimize their being in the historic space of life, the aged with dementia, too, have to focus on the body (experiented body or historical body) as the vivid feeling that is remembered and reproduced. To the aged with dementia, dance is an experience to approach the system of life recognized by the body. Though it is weak to be read as a sold form, within the identical system, that is, shared dance experience, the aged with dementia capture and intend to continue the traits of different expressions. Therefore, dance experience should be suggested not as an experience intended for memorization to delay the loss of functions or maintain the current status but from obtaining the accessibility of dance as a medium of memory and system of communication. As the traits of dance experience dismantled, combined, and formed within the relationship of communication allow the aged with dementia to have special experience as unique life, the structure (system) of contemporary dance contributes to and cooperates with the extension of their world.