Intangible Culture ISSN:2799-3868(Print) 무형문화연구

The purpose of this study is to analyze the dance movement of Hansam Doryeong, Buchae Doryeong and Kal Doryeong performed in Seoul Jinogigut Doryeongdolgi and formulate the symbolic implication innate in the dance movement based on the foregoing. In carrying out the gut (shaman dance, a shaman communicates with god or human through diverse forms, such as, Muga dance, article, gongsu mime and the like. This is attributable to the fact that the shaman has to demonstrate to humans that god it has to communicate with god unyieldingly in the process of cheongsin and osin. Therefore, the shaman applies various communication method of human in the gut just the way it is for integrated use. However, Doryeongdolgi is a unique geori processed only by the dance style differently from other geori. If the language and sound of primitive era is a mean for communication between human to human, dance is a mean of communication between god and human. Doryeongdolgi depicts the fact that the means of communication with god is the path of the other world, an unknown world that no human could know through dance. Doryeongdolgi is the dance that visually symbolize the path to the other world where a human could go only when it is dead. The path has the existence of something that could not be expressed through the language and sound of human. Henceforth, Doryeongdolgi is expressed through the communication method with god, not the communication method of human. Unlike language or writing, dance has the feature to compress the prolonged contents of tens of pages in a movement. Therefore, Doryeongdolgi formulates in dance, not language or sound. However, unlike other geori, Doryeongdolgi processes through diverse methods and repetition in its process method. In other word, Doryeongdolgi formulates the unknown path to the other world through various expression methods as in Hansam Doryeong, Buchae Doryeong and Kal Doryeong, and it displays the difficulty of the path to the other world through boresome repeated motion. This researcher analyzes the dance movement performed in such Doryeongdolgi and intends to depict its symbolic implication innate within the dance movement on such foundation.