On November 18th and 19th 2005, the production “In the Twinkling of the Eye“—Dance performance by Wei-Ning Chen and Zhu-Ying Ku, had been rounded off successfully. According the performance, this thesis will start from my experience. After a half year of the production, I, with a settled mind, try to trace the path of the self-struggling and growing which is induced from the performance. By tracing this path, I try to discuss the influence and benefit from learning Somatics.

The structure of the thesis as follows: Chapter One is a brief introduction about my learning experience in dance school. Chapter Two will bring out Somatics, and introduce three theories of Somatics which affected me a lot. Chapter Three focus on the performance《In the Twinkling of the Eye》, introduces four dance pieces and discusses about the inner experiences of dance rule’s interpretation and body-mind adjustment from the angle of a dancer. Chapter Four elaborates that how Somatics helps a dancer on the stage and on self-training. Chapter Five is a conclusion states some reflections from the processes of body exploring. I expect that from my experience, the thesis will bring some new way of thinking to other people who interested in dance.