국립발레단의 ‘한국적 발레’ 작품들에 나타난 한국적 특성에 관한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the Korean peculiarities manifested in Korean ballets performed by Korean National Ballet Company since 1962 up to the present. The following problems were proposed; first, how the Korean ballet was emerged and developed; second, how the term ‘Korean ballet’ was established; third, how many Korean ballets were performed, and what are the subjects and choreographic intent of these works. The methodology for the study was to analyze the relevant written materials, including pamphlets and reviews from newspapers and magazines, and to conduct interviews with the related people. According to the programs of Korean National Ballet Company’s performances, the term “folk ballet” was used as “Korean ballet” by Bum Song in 1962, and “Korean ballet” by Juri and “ethnic ballet” by Sung Nam Lim were also used as “Korean ballet” in 1964. Later, “Korean creative ballet” and again “ethnic ballet” were used, meaning “Korean ballet”. Through this process, the term “Korean ballet” was established as the one of dance genres in Korea. Korean National Ballet Company presented 19 Korean ballet works, including short pieces. The Korean peculiarities manifested in these works are as follows: in the initial stage, the choreographers’ intents were directly reflected to the characters being played the principal roles by the choreographers, themselves; in the earlier works the Korean traditional dance form was adopted by itself, but gradually the Korean dance form was combined with the western harmoniously; the subjects were exposed to emphasize the national identity which should be distinguished from those of other national communities; the works of the 80’s were created under the socio-political obligation to introduce Korean culture to foreigners. Among them, only 「Giguie’s Dream」and 「Chu-youg」 were reproduced with rectifying the defectiveness and switching the principal dancers. It is very disappointing that the Korean National Ballet Company does not have any Korean ballet repertoire. I, the researcher, strongly believe that the Korean National Ballet Company presents the representative Korean ballet works in the near future. Also, this study would provide the valuable resources for the future researchers to further study about Korean ballets. It is suggested that Korean National Ballet company presents the ‘Korean ballets’ through re-examining the former repertoires, and create new products considering subjects, technique, music, stage setting, costume, lighting, and etc.