The Salpuri or exorcising dance is one of the folk dances and stems from the shamanistic Namdo (Sourthern) dances; 'Sal' means exorcism. This dance comprises the mysterious and fantastic exorcist acts of Korean styles which dramatizes the aesthetics o...
The Salpuri or exorcising dance is one of the folk dances and stems from the shamanistic Namdo (Sourthern) dances; 'Sal' means exorcism. This dance comprises the mysterious and fantastic exorcist acts of Korean styles which dramatizes the aesthetics of 'dynamics amidst statics'. The dance was first created by Hahn Sung-jun in 1939, and since then it has been rooted as a purr art on the Korean theaters.
In this vein, this study was aimed at analizing the texture of the Salpuri dance and its symbolic implications and thereby identifying the peculiar emotions and views of aesthetics harboured in the Korean people.
In the Second Chapter of this paper, the historical background for the Salpuri dance and the symbolism implied by it were briefly reviewed, and then the conceptual development of the dance as well as the Korean people's perceptions of their national legitimacy was given in-depthdescriptions.
The Third Chapter concentratingly studied the Korean people's unique pains expressed in the Salpuri dances by reviewing the artistic dimensions connotated in the dances and the structure of aesthetics exposed in them. Besides, this Chapter examined the processes through which the unique genre of the dances has been established.
The Fourth Chapter reviewed the uses and representations of the white uniform and towel which act as some tools of expressions, and thereby examined the structures of the dancing expressions and the present masters' features using the relevant pictorials.
The last Chapter re-examined the processes through which the Salpuri dances have developed from a religious ritual in the pre-history era, and re-confirmed as a conclusion the extent of the Korean people's perception of aesthetics expressed in the 'dynamics amidst statics' the procession of which is in the order of resentment, its set-in, evocation of divinity and its resolution.