사회학적 관점에서 본 현대무용의 표현성 연구 - Mary Wigman을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study attempts to reflecting the dance with a sociological approach. Although the sociological concept of the dance has not been established firmly yet. this study tries to define concepts of sociology and art-sociology and continues to deal audience as an interpretor of the dance who has become as influencial as the producers of the dance. Considering the fact that the sociology as a science was bound to be conceived in accordance with the need of radically changing societies. among various fields of art. especially, the dance which has intimately related with human-sociology needs a sociological approach to abtain the grounds of this logic. Dance sociology ranges from how dance reflects the reality of a society in the process of its inception, to how the society perceives the dance and reacts to dancers, to what kids of dynamic relationship and meaning the dance has as a collaborated work of dancers and a society. Realizing dance art as communicative relationship between producer and perceiver / audience, and a society is crucial for the dance to restore its intrinsic self-supporting power and role as a component of a society. And even though audience as a substancial being inspects, perceives, and re-interprets the dance with as subjective value-system, they are also under the influence of a society. Fusion of dancers and audience into one based on socioligical realization will make dance works be able to produce sociologically-desirable communication. Thus, the meaning of the dance may be changed by the process of perceivers creative preception and re-interpretation in given situations and times. So, reflecting a society in an understandable message which will help the understanding the intend of the dance can be discussed in a sociology aspect.