무용에서 이미지와 상상의 관계성 연구 = A Study on the Relationship between Image and Imagination in Dances

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is aimed to define and conceptualize the range of imagination in dances through investigating into how imagination or imaginative power functions in creation and appreciation of dances and correlates with other human powers or spheres. To begin with, the author examined what dances create and concluded that dances are an appearance, which is an image. She also found that dance image is related to originality created by the mental function of imagination. As all imaginations do not lead to artistic works or scientific inventions, so imagination sometimes creates fictitious entities presented in images. And the relationship between such image and imagination was detected from investigating into the steps which imagination takes in its mental functions. Imagination may be regarded to function as a feeling in the processes of dance creation and dance appreciation or communication. The feelings of a choreographer create recognitive images which are real appearances, while the feelings of audience mental images which are fictitious entities. In this line, the relations between the said two-way imagination and dance image can be explained as below. First, imagination in dances is a fundamentally mental function which creates images. Second, in the process of understanding and interpreting dances, imaginative power converts recognitive images into mental images. Third, imaginative power, which enables one to interpret things in a manner differentiated from others, will lead to original images of dances, which express in bodily movements what has been perceived through sensual resources or forms. Fourth, imagination function connects memories with the future in such a manner as what does not exist may exist in images. Fourth, imagination function connects memories with the future in such a manner as what does not exist may exist in images.