Searching for Dance-Culture in East-North Asia I -Searching for Archetype of Dance and Pattern of Dance Cultures through the Interpretation of Creation Myth of Korea, China and Japan--
The purpose of this study was to suggest new directions to integra...
Searching for Dance-Culture in East-North Asia I -Searching for Archetype of Dance and Pattern of Dance Cultures through the Interpretation of Creation Myth of Korea, China and Japan--
The purpose of this study was to suggest new directions to integrate dance cultures of the countries in North-East Asia through extracting archetype of dance and by comparing cultural patterns of dance that are presented in the creation myths of Korea, China, and Japan. The conformity of this process was confined to elements of the myths and distinction between dance movements. As presented in the study, archetypes and patterns of dance in the creation myth of Korea, China, and Japan have a common primitive ritual form, deriving Passion-Drive effect on dance movement. The commonality in the form presents elements of Dionysus which tend to appear through development of Frenzy or Ecstasy. Shaman, who could be God and a man at the same time and is known as someone who mediates between God and men, was found in all myths while these three different nations also had similar characteristics in their dance movements which are ritual and ecstatic. The characteristics that were to represent the uniqueness of each culture have eventually revealed common characteristics of all in North-East Asia. In this regard, it seems that the common culture of East-North Asia will not only be highly valued in practice as a source of creation of new form of culture and of impulsion into an act of Art, but also preserve and maintain their archetype and patterns of dance in spite of any possible transformation or regional boundaries. In conclusion, the characteristic like Dionysian artistic impulse, which is proposed in this study, is expected to be used as a basis for the creation of newly integrated dance patterns and as initial manure which will help promote globalization of the dance culture of East-North Asia. ------Searching for Dance-Culture in East-North Asia Ⅱ - A Study of Creation Theory of Dance Culture through Text Interpretation of the Mask Dance Drama in Korea, China and Japan--The purpose of this study was to suggest a paradigm to develop integrated cultural contents which lead new creation through discussion and interpretation in the text of the typical mask dance drama in North-East Asia. For this study, context of cultural history, form of play, dance structures and movement qualities in the mask dance drama of Korea, China and Japan were investigated. Transformed cultural elements that are presented in the mask dance drama were extracted. The result of this study is as follows: 1.The dance was transformed from godcentrism to anthropocentrism. 2.The dance was transformed from a dance symbolizing and abstracting the shamanism of sacrifice to a tutelary deity to an ecstatic dance naturally appearing in the life of men. 3.The dance was transformed from a dance of prayer for human life, death, fortune and misfortune to a satire on the thoughts and life of society of the times. 4.The dance was transformed from a dance expressing ritualistic sacredness to a dance expressing a comical sense of humor and amusement in relation to men's laughter. 5.The dance was transformed from a dance expressing transcendence to a dance expressing men's sexual instinct. 6.The dance was transformed from a natural dance created in the communities to an artificial dance in which people hid behind a mask in a period of discrimination in social class. 7.The dance was transformed from a jumping dance emphasizing Shape Flow into a field dance expressing various Effort of man. 8.The dance was transformed from Passion Drive dionysian dance to harmoniously integrated apollonian dance. As the result, mask dance drama in Korea, China and Japan natural and new meta-patterns were created by choosing various cultural elements and by integrating divergent context. Pertinent integration of transformed elements which was found in each culture will be a basis for the creation of dance.