Hybridity of Taiwanese Dancing Body in the Era of Globalization
Yun-fen Chen, National Taiwan University of Sport, Taiwan
Hybridity of the Taiwanese Dancing Body in the Era of Globalization (paper)
New generation dancers usually tend to work across different workplaces, include go to work abroad. How does this situation may change the dancer body concept? So far, very rare studies have been focused on how the dancers travel to work in the contemporary culture flows of globalization these days. Hence, the aim of this study was to explore that under the flows of globalization phenomenon, how Asian dancers cross abroad to European countries and work for dance companies. The former Batsheva’s dancer, Lee Chen-Wei, was chosen for analysis in this study. Lee Chen-Wei had learned Taichi-Dowing as a dance concept and skills before she joined and become a member of the Batsheva Dance Company based in Israel in 2009. This study employs a number of research techniques, such as data collection, interviews, and dance performance analyzations, to analysis what’s the influence between the dancer who trained as Asia background dance techniques and gaga after she enters the company. The research results indicate that during a dancer’s working progress, different culture hybridity will motivate the dancer to adjust and refund a new self-identity. During self-readjustment progress, the dancers could relate and connect the past experience, in order to create their unique selves and become an icon for themselves as an artist
Yun-fen Chen earned a BFA in the College of Dance, Fontys University, the Netherlands, in 2007, and is now studying in the Master’s program at the Department of Dance, National Taiwan University of Sport.