ABSTRACT

South Korea has 33 dance departments in tertiary education institutions around the country, with only one of the schools having a choreography major. This study endeavours to bring awareness to the value and necessity of choreography education in nurturing creative choreographers for the dance industry in South Korea and to reject two assumptions: 1) choreographers are born and not made, and 2) choreographers are nurtured through the apprenticeship model. The purpose of this study is therefore to identify the educational backgrounds of prominent choreographers, their developmental stages and the significant influences they received. To achieve this, the study adopted a phenomenological approach and coherently implemented Moustakas’s phenomenology research analysis measures. The data were collected from choreographers and research into their development in a doctoral inquiry completed in 2013. The identified findings illustrate that choreography can be taught, increased awareness of how to develop professionally as a choreographer is needed, and there are many avenues for choreographers to be educated and influenced.

摘要

韩国在全国的高等教育机构中有33个舞蹈系，其中只有一所学校设有舞蹈专业。本研究旨在让人们认识到编舞教育在为韩国舞蹈行业培养创意编舞方面的价值和必要性，并拒绝两个假设：1) 编舞是天生的，而不是后天培养的，以及 2) 编舞是通过学徒制模式培养的. 因此，本研究的目的是确定著名编舞家的教育背景、他们的发展阶段以及他们受到的重大影响。为此，本研究采用了现象学方法，并连贯地实施了穆斯塔卡斯的现象学研究分析措施。