This study aimed to analyze the socio-historical change of a traditional dance shown in the Courtdance during the era of japanese oppression , being based on the theory of civilizing process by Elias, in which he claimed that the human action changes according to a civilizing process and includes a socio-historical meaning. For this purpose, being based on the analytical frame proposed in the research of Elias, we used a socio-historical and comparative methode of analyze, collecting materials of Court dance over the last centuries, thereby analyzing and interpreting them. For our references, we used archives and private interviews as a first order materials and related articles and performance annuls as secondary resources, concluding as follows.First, while the feudal system was collapsing and the society was undergoing a sudden change, Courtdance during the era of japanese oppression made an incompatible form of combination and the kisaeng association took the responsibility of succeeding the traditional dance, presenting itself as a organization contrary to a group of court dance. In this social change, the emergence of a new dance came to seperate people preferring the modern culture form those holding on to the traditional dance, thereby incurring a lot of conflicting argument about a succession of tradition.Secondly, court dance under the japanese oppression went through a civilizing process, where it had realized a traditionality as an universal art value with an introverted national identity.