The purpose of this study is to examine the changes in the policy of intangible cultural properties, focusing on dancing, and to suggest the direction of dancing in the current law regarding intangible cultural properties.Law is constantly evolving for the expansion and diversification of intangible culture. The legal evolution focusing on Dancing, the following three items were found. First, it is related with the exploration and designation of intangible cultural properties. When the Act on the Protection of Cultural Property was enacted, it was the period of the “excavation” of cultural properties. Among the current 7 national intangible cultural properties, five of them were designated at this time. Second, it is related with the expansion of the scope of designation of intangible cultural properties. In this period, the scope of designation of intangible cultural properties was expanded with the establishment of the Local Cultural Heritage System and the North Korean 5 provinces Cultural Heritage System, the signing of the Convention for the Protection of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the establishment of the World Heritage registration and protection system. Third, it is the change in the category of intangible cultural properties. The “Original Form Preservation Rule” in the Cultural Property Protection Act has been changed to “Type Preservation Rule”. In this way, the policy is expanding in various ways, such as the expansion of the category of intangible cultural properties, through the process of designation, the expansion of the scope of the designation and the change of category of intangible cultural properties. To keep pace with changes in law, the category of dancing needs to be expanded in various ways. Currently, dances designated as intangible cultural properties are limited to the dances of professional artists. We need to widen the category escaping from the narrow limitations. In addition, through the discussion of the various branches of dances designated as intangible cultural assets at the present time, the designation category should be expanded with the efforts to designate the modern dance. In other words, the expansion of various categories is the direction of dancing in the intangible cultural property field in the future. It is the direction that the field of dancing can be expanded.