| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 台灣文化研究所 === 95 === The dissertation has presented the life of Tsai Jui-Yueh, from her birth in 1921 till the disease took her away in 2005. Her life experience was the thesis of this dissertation. There were five major eras been pointed out in the article. “Tainan Era (1921~1937)”— being a student and the life that Tsai Jui-Yueh had lived before went to learn dancing in Japan. “Dance in Japan Era (1937~1946)”— the life in Japan where Tsai went to learn dancing with Ishii Baku and Ishii Midori, and experienced the tour performances. “The Petrel Hovering in the Storm (1946~1952)”— after returned to Taiwan, Tsai started to promote dance, and not long after she was imprisoned because of her husband Lei Shih-Yu’s political aspect. “Brave Rose (1952~1983)”— after released from jail, Tsai had devoting herself into teaching, performing, and choreographing. “Wave beneath the Peacefulness —Life in Australia (1983~2005)”— immigrated to Australia with her son Lei Ta-Peng after successfully applied Police Criminal Record Certificate. In the expectation to present a more completed history of Tsai’s life, the dissertation has taken five months’ research to build. Other than her life experience, the dissertation had also interpreted the cultivation and motivation in Tsai’s works and their relationships with the background during the era.
In 1946, Tsai had given up the perspective that she might achieve with her career in Japan, and went back to Taiwan to establish a Dance studio in her hometown—Tainan. She had trained so many professional performers; moreover, her creativity and performances had irrigated once the dessert land for dance, and made Taiwan a fruitful dance environment instead. Under the oppression of White Terror, and radical change in her life, through continuous teaching and choreographing, Tsai had showed her insistence on dance. In 1960, folk dance was still the main stream in Taiwan''s society, however, at that time, Tsai had already started to invite foreign dancers to teach modern dance in Taiwan. She’s no doubt the pioneer of Taiwan''s modern dance. The efforts, instances she putted into dance, and her way of pioneering, making her one of the most important dancers in the dance history of modern Taiwan.
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