춤기록화 현황과 발전에 관한 연구 - 한국춤문화자료원의 김천흥컬렉션을 중심으로 -

Abstract

There is a growing need to systematically collect, preserve, manage, and use dance records these days. The social, cultural and economic potentials of dance records are highlighted by academic and dance fields as well as society. Dance records are not only the traces of dance arts in the past but also the bases of future arts, which can be globally competitive. In this context, this research explores the present conditions and outlooks of dance documentation, focusing on the Kim Cheon Heung Collection at the Korea Dance Resource Center in South Korea. This attempt assures the necessity of dance documentation and proposes ways for advancing dance documentation in South Korea. This research discusses lack of finance and space, and unadequate specialty of staffs in managing the private archive of arts in South Korea. Generous supports by governmental policy to ease these conditions look difficult to expect. By identifying themselves as the organizations contributing to the development of both the fields of creation of arts and performance of academic researches, the solutions will be reached as a long term project. At this moment, individual efforts and actions for raising the public and social values of the private archives of arts are needed. Besides the efforts for constructing the cooperative networks among art archives, managing dance records are recommended.