"City Corner"

Innovation and Extraction from Classical Movement Vocabulary

The choreography production “City Corner” includes three dance works, New Words in Old Memory, Mom Song and Endless Peak. Based on training and research from classical techniques, the choreographer tried to elaborate classical movement vocabulary, and hopefully to bring new thought reflecting the contemporary life.

Chapter one gives an overview description about the production process and also defines the fundamental meaning of “classical movement vocabulary”.

Chapter two is to analyze the dance, New Words in Old Memory. It focuses on the use of contemporary dance vocabulary utilizing the traditional music, taking it as a process of re-recognizing traditional music.

Chapter Three is about Mom Song inspired by the Chinese Opera. The dramatized family life means to bring the piece that is familiar to our real life experience.

Chapter Four spells out the dance, Endless Peaks which points out the injustice to indigenous people in National Park policies. It is to remind us and to inspire a further thinking for them and for us.

By examining the process of the entire production, I have come to the understanding from my body experiences which is analyzed in the chapter five. I found new characters and inner balances of self.

Creating, performing and training have fulfilled my life. In these fruitful years of study, I appreciate and believe art as an invisible transformation of the life of all human beings. I hope to offer the wisdom of utilizing traditional movement vocabulary into contemporary choreography. In intertwining traditional techniques into my choreography experience, I believe the production “City Corner” has strengthened my skill in creative works. I hope to share my final report to the people, not just in dance but the society.