A Study on Site-specific Dance Improvisation Curriculum

• Main Authors: LIAO, YU-LING, 廖育伶
• Other Authors: TSENG, RA-YUAN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pmk8t6

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 舞蹈研究所 === 107 === The main purpose of this paper is to develop dance curriculum on Site-specific Dance improvisation. In this study, I would like to apply the research method on Action research and mainly focus on exploring on how a specific site has an impact on bodily movements during the improvisation process. In addition, I would like to discuss the meaning-making process at the level of our sensorimotor while encountering a specific site. I also want to explore how “Quality” flows through site and body. And in this circular process, I want to find out how the participants react through body movements to “Quality” on a specific site. I began exploring my own experience to clarify the motivation and core question of this study. Following by that, I started to do a research on reading the relevant literature regarding “Quality”. From reading Mark Johnson, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Rudolf von Laban and John Dewey, I began to have a clear view on “Quality” in the realm of movements, specific site and inner feelings. In order to have an overview on designing a site-specific dance curriculum, I interviewed two Taiwanese choreographers, I-Fen Tung and Hsiao-Yin Peng, who had strong background of making site-specific dance works. I hope to collect the important data to improve my thinking in the process of designing curriculum. The third of this paper is to address my practical experience on site-specific dance teachings and how these practical experiences reflecting on the theoretical discourse. Finally, I would like to answer all the research questions based on my practical teaching experience and hopefully I can develop the structure of Site-specific Improvisation Dance curriculum in the future.