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This research aimed to chronologically examine the change of ballet in South Korea in relation to the art policy of the central government, on the premise that the government of a country functions as an actor that affects arts practices. To undertake this research, I conducted a comprehensive literature review on arts policy and ballet practices in the South Korean society from the liberation to the Park Geun-hye government. As a result, it has been disclosed that the early South Korean government initially administered ballet which was deemed unethical, and then included it as the subject of its policy. This change paved the way for the development of ballet in South Korea. Since 1987, the South Korean government has assured the autonomy of arts and gradually increased its support for arts. Accordingly, ballet has also showed its quantitative and qualitative growth. Despite the burgeoning ballet scene, the fact that the government fund for ballet is concentrated in national and public companies is considered a problem that needs to be solved for the well-balanced and sustainable development of ballet in South Korea.

This study shows elements of Self-orientalism, which appeared in the closing performance of the Seoul Olympic, in depth. Basically, this research is based on the Edward Said’s orientalism theory, who is a well-known theorist of the post-colonialism. On the stage of the Olympic, the viewing power between the viewers and the performers occurs, and Korea identifies and distinguishes itself and reproduces the typical oriental stereotype through certain particular performances. Based on this, we recognize the orientalism sprouted and grown within our mind, and the salient significance of the research is applicable and nontrivial in that this paper reviews the present-day traditional reproducing system.

The purpose of this study was to verify the intervention effect of dance movement therapy for the middle aged male-rotator cuff injury patient’s rehabilitation. The program was organized through clinical program, expert meetings and narrative study. The case was attended by one patient who was diagnosed as rotator cuff partial tear and received several other rehabilitation methods previously. As a result, the dance movement therapy program showed positive effect on the patient’s recognition of his own injury and improvement of rehabilitation progress. Based on the results, a follow-up study on the dance movement therapy programs with various kind of injuries and population was proposed.

Lee Jin-ah’s research ‘Nation and Dance’, which reinterpreted Choi Seung-hee’s life in a way that intersects nationalism and feminism, was recently published. This book review focuses on how the book is overcoming the limitations of existing research, which usually converges to Choi Seung-hee’s genius or bad luck. To this end, this book review analyzes the author’s research method of rereading Choi Seung-hee’s narrative of transboundary with keywords such as ‘national representation’, ‘gender performance’, and ‘Joseon dance’. As a result, through the author’s experiment, this review finds that there is a possibility of more diverse interpretations of the way a modern woman named Choi Seung-hee exists.