“Butoh and K-pop are contemporary interpretations of traditional dance styles from their respective cultures. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Japan & Korea Unit Paper.

Prompt:

“Butoh and K-pop are contemporary interpretations of traditional dance styles from their respective cultures.

Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Is it more important for a culture to preserve its art or progress its art? Use aspects of both Butoh and K-pop to illustrate your answer.”

Each Unit Paper should be approximately two (2) pages in length, type-written, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, and uploaded to Blackboard) by 11:59pm on the Sunday evening after the unit is completed. You may submit your paper early. Your paper may be up to three (3) pages in length.

Your Unit Papers will be a written collection of your expectations for a given dance form or culture, observations about your personal experience with the dance form in lab, and reflections about your experience and how it was impacted by your expectations. A prompt will be given for each paper to help guide your thoughts.
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Attached Files:
File Korean Dance_ Pure Emotion and Energy – Intro & Capt 1&4 v2.pdf Korean Dance_ Pure Emotion and Energy – Intro & Capt 1&4 v2.pdf – Alternative Formats (982.892 KB)
20958718 (blackboardcdn.com)
File Module Japan and Korea.pptx Module Japan and Korea.pptx – Alternative Formats (5.338 MB)
learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet02-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com.pptx (live.com)
File K-pop Article v2.pdf K-pop Article v2.pdf – Alternative Formats (294.605 KB)
20958712 (blackboardcdn.com)
World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle by Patricia Leigh Beaman, Chapter 4 – Japanese noh, kabuki, and butoh: Entertaining samurai, merchants, and rebels.
Korean Dance – article
Contemporary K-Pop BTS – article

Optional:
Japan & Korea PowerPoint (see attached files above)
World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle by Patricia Leigh Beaman, Chapter 4 – Japanese noh, kabuki, and butoh: Entertaining samurai, merchants, and rebels.
Korean Dance – article
Contemporary K-Pop BTS – article

Optional:
Japan & Korea PowerPoint (see attached files above)

Watch
Watch
Japan & Korea – Lecture 1
Japan & Korea – Lecture 2
Japan & Korea – Lecture 3

Japan & Korea – Korean Dance Lab

“Butoh and K-pop are contemporary interpretations of traditional dance styles from their respective cultures. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
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