굿춤의 본질과 신명현상 = The Essence of ‘Gut Dance’ and ‘Sinmyung Phenomena’

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The shamanism, a form of our oldest social religion has both characters of an ancient form strongly reflecting human's desire for action and a big scale villagial service possessing religious sense.
By way of performance, the ancient arts is classified into following three categories, i.e., 1) A poem; showing the mentality of human being, 2) A song which is created by adding a simple rhythm onto a poem 3) A dance which makes perfect communication between gods and human beings through physical presentations.
Having a role as a hotbed of ancient culture, the shamanism dersves to have a special meaning as unsplitted general arts.
The shaman's dance in the gut implicates both religious and artistic functions making a role for connection as well as finalization among three stages of inviting, entertaining and seeing-off the gods, which are major components of the gut.
The style of dance in gut mainly consists of vertical leaping, roving, stepping forward and backward, eventual moving forward and roving essentrically.
Shinmyung of korean beings with sense of achievement and emancipation which can be felt by uniting with a divine spirit. It was made through custom of ancient memorial service and dance was one of the means to simulate Shinmyung.
On the otherhand, this kind of 'Shinmyung phenomena', shown in Gut dance is a gate way to enter the Ecstasy status, while, the dance is a vital part and, at the same time, doing safety role on maintaining and protecting prosperous life of human-being.
from the aboves, it can be said that the nature of the dance in stems from an expression way under ecstasy state.
thus, the elements of the gut are identical to those of our traditional dance.
accordingly, we should understand and learn the basic roots of our traditional dance through out a work for review and analysis on shame's dance and should further develop and create new guide line for our traditional culture by applying such knowledges for new creative works and study on dancing figure.