The purpose of this study is to analysis the complex meaning of the contemporary dance which can not be easily understood at once using Gestalt's perception. Therefore, on this study I try to figure out the phenomenal meaning of the contemporary dance...
The purpose of this study is to analysis the complex meaning of the contemporary dance which can not be easily understood at once using Gestalt's perception. Therefore, on this study I try to figure out the phenomenal meaning of the contemporary dance through seeing expression structure of the art work and apply it to the critic technique as a new interpretation of the contemporary dance. Therefore, this is the trial to understand the actual dance work by Gestalt's main concept and visual perception. Through these concepts the dance can be understood as a whole thing includes total vision of Gestalt even with choreographers' background and philosophical reasoning which can be accepted in various ways to the each audience who might have different understanding of the art depended on one's unique historical and cultural experience. These research concept of this study might contribute to develope new way of thinking in critics of complicated contemporary dance which leads the audience might much easily understand the work.
First of all, this study set up the concept through Gestalt psychologist's experimental examples. “Allness, simplicity and structural properties” are these. Through these concepts, the visual perceptive tendency are adjusted to the analysis of dance. In detail, adjusting to the dance phenomenon and structural character of the dance, directing to simplicity, to organic texturing and psychological changing factors in dynamic field could be captured as visual perceptive principle. Connecting to Gestalt's concept and the art work's visual perceptive principle, based on “allness meaning change” which is one of the main concept of Gestalt, it is adjusted to the dance work analysis as a semi-premise.
Fist, the main phenomenon in whole work, the title phenomenon was set. Find the meaning of the work through the strongest perceptive topic by Gestalt. Secondly, analyze the characters of the structural parts which consist the main phenomenon. Therefore, figure out the detailed structural phenomenon which form theme images. Then, find the resulted meaning through the relationship. Thirdly, recombinate the medial property and relationship. It can find the total conformational sense and expressional character via recombination between each parts properties and relationship's meaning. Forthly, I try to find the form of total structural texture and the meaning's relationship. Therefore, this study try to figure out the total form image and structure. Finally, based on all the setting and adjusting, I try to find the work's phenomenal meaning via choreographer's reasoning and previous work's expression.
In this study, I choose three representative works; Shen Wei's「Connect Transfer」, Philippe Decouflé's 「Shazam」and Mats Ek's 「Wet Woman」. Each performance's characteristic contents were analyzed based on above theories. In detail, this study described the physical space's phenomenal meaning sensed as co-relationship between the dancer's motions and background space and interpretate that the sensing experience's meaning based on expressivity and artistic space's meaning which sensed by total structural formality and expressivity. This study try to interpretate the dance as an experience which is a communication between audience and choreographer rather the relationship via formal one through composing all the mentioned factors.
As a result of analysis of those three work's interpretation, this research showed how the complicated contemporary dance which depends on variation of motional experience, structure and image can be understood as a preliminary study. Furthermore, the interpretation of artistic work should consider coreographer's philosopical and personal background and contemporary time-space. This research can be a good example which practice those principles in interpretation of contemporary dance which can contribute to open new horizontal way of analysis in critics with cultural Gestalt view.
As a conclusion, through the discussion by Gestalt perspective experience, this study suggest the vital understanding of dance via phenomenal experience of total artistic work, propose the easier way to understand complex contemporary dance through this method which give new possible dance critic interpretational method.