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This paper aims to address contentious issues on the museal world’s recent appropriation of dance by focusing on the 2016 exhibition MMCAⅹ KNCDC Performance: Unforeseen at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul in collaboration with Korea National Contemporary Dance Company. This exhibition, which brings a series of dance and performance into the museum space, intends to go beyond the boundary between visual art and dance and engender audiences’ encounter with unexpected events. In the first part, I survey recent critical dance discourses on museum’s renewed interest in dance regarding its political, economic, and aesthetic aspects. The second part scrutinises the exhibition Unforeseen in terms of its curatorial ways of exhibiting dance and the cogency of dance’s relocation.