Publication:

被遺忘的舞蹈動能:民族舞蹈比賽的身體經驗與文化記憶(II)

本研究針對1954-1970年間民族舞蹈比賽參與者之生命敘事與文化記憶進行研究。除了廣泛搜集編纂當時歷史資料外，本研究企圖從個人觀點的舞蹈身體經驗與生命敘事等微觀角度思索，以彌補過往研究僅著重國族主義與政治力介入之大敘事。同時，運用當代舞蹈研究與文化記憶等相關理論，展開以身體為中心的史料探尋與提問，探討當時民族舞蹈比賽此一事件在舞蹈社群所積累出的文化記憶為何，企圖重新拼湊此一事件的多元面貌。為聚焦於『民族舞蹈』與早期台灣舞蹈社群之脈絡，本研究第二年針對1954年到1970年的報紙報導與新聞影片等史料分析，企圖以此瞭解參與過民族舞蹈比賽團體組參與者的身體經驗與社會脈絡。本研究發現，因國家提倡且各國校皆參與民族舞蹈比賽，一般大眾在學校階段經常接觸民族舞蹈，表演民族舞蹈是當時女學生的普遍身體經驗。女性參加民族舞蹈比賽，無論是個人組或團體組，獲得獎項成績，對於其後來選擇舞蹈專業職涯有影響。由此，可發現民族舞蹈不僅提供個人社會能動性與批判性論述價值，也影響當時專業舞蹈社群成形，成為一般大眾的重要文化與身體記憶。

This project focuses on the life narratives and cultural memories of the participants in the Chinese Min-Zu Dance Competition during 1954-1970 in Taiwan. Besides widely collecting historical materials and texts, I use interviews as my major research approach to provide the micro-perspective, such as individual interpretations and their bodily experiences, in order to avoid simply hiring macro-narratives, such as Nationalism, to analyze this event. I also employ the theoretical arguments from cultural memories and dance studies to posit an inquiry on the Dancing Body, instead of overemphasizing the importance of visual symbols in the past researches. In order to keep its focus on the Chinese Min-Zu Dance Competition and the dance community on that period. In this year of my research, I focus on the participants who won the best national awards in the individual performance. I argue that, if we inspect this event from the perspectives of bodily experience of women and collective cultural practices, the Min-Zu Dancing body is the space where the different discourses interacted and where the agency generated at that time. I also argue that this event is an important cultural memory of dance community and of general public in the 1950s and 1960s Taiwan, which should be seriously reconsidered in academia.