ABSTRACT
Lee Young-Ian is a dancer, lecturer, and, most recently, an actress. She started studying Korean traditional dance at age five, and then modern dance and classical ballet at about 13, in middle school. That was part of the curriculum of her school, and for Dance majors there were other, extracurricular activities as well. When she was a junior at Ewha she got involved in a musical theater production; also, by that time she was sick and tired of always dancing the same kinds of movement patterns. The people she knew and admired in New York certainly influenced her, but sometimes they approached a subject with different tools, inappropriate tools. They were systematical, logical; they measured, they dissected; they reduced the three-dimensional substance to something that could be examined through a microscope. She find the Korean dance community largely unchanged, especially in the training of dancers. There are still lots of Graham technique.
