ABSTRACT
Court dance repertoire is also taught at some universities. For example, Ewha Women's University provides students with the opportunity to major in ballet, modern dance, or "Korean dance," including court dance. The term ch'angjak muyong, "creative dance," is the most descriptive of the nature of these "bridge" dances, which emphasize experimentation, in some instances based on non-Korean dance forms and in other cases on traditional or derived forms. Some of the dancers who choose to move beyond Korean dance forms become involved in dances that bear little resemblance to anything uniquely Korean. A type of dance that sometimes appears at the non-Korean end of the continuum with modern dance and sometimes slips closer to the middle with creative dance is one that most people would identify as ballet. Members of the cast were both Korean and non-Korean; Universal Ballet seems to try to live up to its name and include dancers from a broad spectrum of ethnic and national backgrounds.
