【Abstract】

Taiwan Dance Education has started since 1981 and developed in past three decades. There are more and more dance schools from primary school, high school, University and graduate school. This kind of “stage by stage” system, which provides dance students a completed study pipeline, made me become a so-called “professional dancer”. However, “dance education” is not only involved in the physical technique training but also contain the humanities and artistry, in order to build up the dancing body filled with artistic potential.

Embrace, which is the graduate concert work produced by me and Lu Hsin-Lin on January in 2008, ended more than two years so far. During this period, I try to recall all past memory including all improvement, pain, joy and struggle which happened in that production. All discovery and change of thinking method of my body give me enough space to improve. Now, again, I am trying to re-organize my experience through my writing to express. Through this thesis, I try to embrace dance and my dancing again.

The main purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyze the production. I will discuss my experience in following three chapters. In Chapter one, I discuss my experience of self-learning under professional dance education system in Taiwan. From my point of view, chapter two is talking about the content of 3 pieces of Embrace production with my performer experience and how do I adapt my dance training background to interpret these works. Chapter three is the conclusion, which is about my growing-up in these two years in the professional dance company. I hope these experience and introspection would be practiced in my teaching method and share those thought to everyone. I hope I could insist to devote myself for the dance and give feedback for dance education in the future.