현대발레에 나타난 안무 특성 연구 = A Study on the Special of Dance Composition in Modern Ballet

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The purpose of this study is to understand the features of modern ballet art history showing new formalities and various diversions, find out the specialties of modern ballet and look out on the future prospect through assessing productions of Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Boris eifman who are leading dance composers of the 20th century.
Looking at the ballet history chronologically, romantic ballet saw it's climax in the 19th century, France, a creation of surrealistic fantasy themes, Pointe technique and white constumes mixed together yielding important technical development regulating current form of ballet. Then around the mid 1900's, owing to the lack of male performers and restricted from of expression biased on only the technical skills brought about the decline of the position of ballet within the French society. This was quite contrary to the situation in Russia where ballet art kept on improving, supported greatly by the royal policy encouraging ballet, becoming the art of the people and the aristocracy. The Russian ballet of the late 1900's shows great improvement. The results are introduction of short skirt called classic tutu affected by splendid 'pas de deux' and quick turns. After that, productions of Mikhail Forkine and Ballet Russes breathed in new liveliness and provided alternatives with experiments and approaches of new ways in dance composition giving rise to Neo-Classicism ballet. After thar, the emergence of modem ballet carrying new dancing idea in the 20th century promoted the modernization of ballet. In the early 1930's, Kurt Joss of Germany made a epochal diversion in ballet and in his production "The Green Table" he weakened the usage of Pointe technique movements and upset the custom of those times expressing only the romantic themes or internal emotions. Modern ballet after the 1950's have been showing a tendency of forming connections with other genre looking for new varieties of dance. And by the late 20th century, some ballet dance composers expanded the area of ballet dance and made resolute experimental attempts which were hard to estimate it's form creating a synthetic style production which can show various genre in one piece.
The feature of modern ballet developed ad shown above, is as follows.
First, jiri Kylian formed an experimental stage with mixture and compromise. Ballet and other genre have been mixed harmoniously with other genre and not only modern dance but from world folk dance, sports, jazz, to even daily life movements are used as functions adapted in experimental stages.
Second, Mats Ek accomplished creative sarcastic reorganizing. Reorganizing existing classical ballet pieces requires knowledge, imagination and emotional sensibility of a creative mind and so gave rise to new interest amongst the audience with themes dealing ideas and issues of current times.
Third, Boris Eifman improved theater stage technique giving out synthetic ballet. The advanced civilization of modern society provided ballet with a new character of multi functioning and enormous size adding to the aspect of Total Art, and this contributed to ballet's gaining popularity
As mentioned above, modern ballet has found a new language of movement because of the expansion of dancing sphere introducing many various themes and subjects. Also it is developing in a unpredictable situation expanding and improving, even is affected by music and not just modern dance recognized as 'listening dance' not just 'watching dance'. Again, improvements in theater tenhniques made possible the movie-like spectacular ballet pieces and it contributed to the popularity of ballet.
Therefore here after there should be studies in various aspects and directions on specialties in the productions of various modern dance composers and thorough examinations on what kind of continuous development took place on modern ballet with the impact of advanced technology of the 21st century.