The purpose of this study was to understand how Salpuri Dance had handed down to apprentices and what they shaped unique culture and what Salpuri Dance had any meaning on the basis of formed culture. Also, this study used an ethnographic study which was systematic explanation process to specific culture phenomenon to explain their cultural aspect on dance experience. Therefore, data collection of this study completed through direct interaction between researcher and participant using intensive interview, field observation.
The collected data bring forth the following results through analysis of three stages which was made up of transcription, coding by topics and category. Firstly, the meaning of Salpuri Dance completion categorized as necessity, motivation of dance completion and educational, artistic value of dance completion and identity establishment through dance completion. Secondly, experience and the meaning of Salpuri Dance categorized as feminine beauty, harmony of from motion to stillness and from stillness to motion, technics of flavor and elegance, emotion express as a grudge, impromptu nature and a deity, perpect flow, and dramatic structure. Thirdly, the cultural consciousness world of Salpuri Dance categorized as cognition on culture inheritance’s value and preservation and understanding on culture product. Conclusively, Salpuri Dance completion were cognition process of cultural experience which include behavior and consciousness of culture material on the basis of its history nature and artistic nature.
The experienced and essential meaning of this Salpuri Dance can represent the vividity when it was based on apprentices’s direct personal experience. Also, ethnographic research method could be understanded as direct, personal experience analysis process on experience world of Salpuri Dance.
This study can give a chance to have the better understanding on Salpuri Dance through experience of Salpuri Dance apprentices and can play a role on work beginning which enhance meaning, value on tradition culture.