민속무용과 예술 = 한국 춤과 신춤에 관한 몇 가지 논의

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The dances of Korea, require more than mere physical and technical training. A true dancer of the Korean dance needs to elevate one's spiritually to the religious plane. There are three components of the Korean dance movement ; 발디딤새(feet movements), 손놀림새(arm movements), and 몸굴림새(body movement). These three components have to work together in order to create the form of dance. Korean dances expresses introvertness through physical movements. The motions are rooted in the inner realm and thus physical mobility is not great. However, the controlled motions reflect strong human will because the dancer is dancing from the emotional surges within.
Korean shamanism involves the worship of gods and of the spirits of ancestors and is one of the dominant Korean belief systems today. Dancing in shamanism is one of the skills the shaman. Shamanisitic dancing is called 'god dancing'(shin ch'um) and helps to encourage and show the necessary ecstatic state for receiving the spirits. Not many different steps are involved, but every dance is done according to definite slow, medium, or fast rhythms. Keosang ch'um, a type of dancing that begins very slowly and ten picks up tempo until the mudang is dancing very fast.