The Dance of Life: A Study of Choreographer Zhang Xiao-Xiong’s The Bird of Paradise (1999), Asunder (2005), and A Few Chapters of Floating Life (2006)

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 舞蹈理論研究所 === 96 === Subject of this essay is to discuss the contemporary dance arts of the sojourner choreographer Zhang Xiao-Xiong. We attempt to find out how he gets his commonality from his life experience, broading dilettantism, profound asetheticism. His background and concer...

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Main Authors: Chu-Chun Teng, 鄧竹君
Other Authors: Ya-tin Lin
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mgz4c5
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 舞蹈理論研究所 === 96 === Subject of this essay is to discuss the contemporary dance arts of the sojourner choreographer Zhang Xiao-Xiong. We attempt to find out how he gets his commonality from his life experience, broading dilettantism, profound asetheticism. His background and concerned culture and its expressions reflects to his process of choreography and at the same time expresses his logos of life and thoughts of aesthetics. We choose three works which will completely represent his life experience and to observe how culture affects the form, style and subject and content of choreography. The writer choose cultural study as the main study way also accompanied with “diaspora” and to incise with multi absorb angles to singlize, formulate the phenomenon but not limited to theory study and then research choreography further approaching to development of diversification and beyond the domain. Chapter one is introduction-the motive, viewpoint and purpose and study way to write, the structure with literature and art. Chapter two is introduction Zhang Xiao-Xiong’s as a contemporary choreography and his background of literature and art with his choreographic career. Chapter three is by clarifying perspective study and to define the concept nouns to observe culture and diaspora of Zhang Xiao-Xiong. Chapter four, five and six are analyzing and discussing his three works. Chapter seven is ending with complete expression of his three works as a preliminary study for culture and choreography.