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Famous for its ‘Modern Dance on Baby Oil’, the Taipei Dance Circle (1984–2019) changed how we think about movements. This book captures a rare behind-the-scenes look in dance ethnography at the group's final experimental years (2014-2017) after losing their founder, Shaw-Lu Liu. During this chaotic but creative and liminal phase, the author compares Shaw-Lu Liu’s and Cheng-Chieh Yu’s choreographic methodologies through thirteen months of fieldwork, positioning divergent paths in modern / postmodern dance. Bridging anthropology and dance studies, this book takes you deep into the slippery and creative world of movements, substance, objects, imagination and aesthetics.
Yu-Chun Chen is an independent researcher at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying). Some of her journal publications include ‘To the end of a dance troupe: On and Off the stage of Floating Horizons’, ‘Performances as Rituals’ and ‘To Move ‘the Technologies of the Self’: the Embodiment of Somaesthetics in Dance Improvisation’, published in Taipei Theatre Journal, Introducing Anthropology and Taiwan Dance Research Journal.
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Intersection between the Body, Society and Creativity
Chapter 2. ‘The Big Bang’ that Emerged from the Inclusive Training
Chapter 3. Let’s Slide!
Chapter 4. Sliding into New Worlds
Chapter 5. Dancing in Liminality
Chapter 6. Last but Not Least
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index