Zhuangzi And Dances Of Wanderers--Concurrently Discuss The Body Mind And The Enlightenment Of Dance

Zhuangzi was characterized by its unique aesthetics, art creation theory, and profound meaning of body mind, which carved out a new way for the dancing artists of later generations.The author, born in Hokkaido of Janpan, is the composer and performer of Dances of Wanderers, who has been wandering in many countries like Japan, U.S., China mainland, and Taiwan for many years,and therefore, the author has drawn different art nutrition from different cultures.Wandering is equivalent to Zhuangzi's concept Carefree Journey. And Dances of Wanderers is the author's dancing works, which absorbed the essence of Zhuangzi's concepts like Carefree Journey (aesthetic view), Tao (art creation theory) and body mind, which were used to represent Zhuangzi's ideological world. Starting from the traditions of chinese ancient dancing, and on the basis of the integrity of man and nature, this paper unscrambled the aesthetic thoughts of Zhuangzi,such as pay respect to Nature and Gods, and put emphasis on soaring and variation from respectively two standpoints:the supreme beauty of the universe and the supreme beauty of the freak. Based on such aesthetic thoughts, Zhuangzi's art creation thoery made the claim to let the intention of the creative subject vanish so that the effects of creation,that is, making man conform to Nature could be achieved. As to Dances of Wanderers, from its stage setting to the dance poses, each part is a heart dialogue with the art thoughts of Zhuangzi, and from the enlightenment of which, they jointly explain the realm of perfect dance of Zhuangzi. Combining the spirits of necromancy and sacrifice culture and Janpanese Noh Dance, Dances of Wanderers is an integration not only of the unearthed relics, ancient documents and all the annotations of previous dynasties, but also of the author's personal dancing experience, creative understanding and the formation story of itself. Besides exploring the dancing-relevant thoughts of Zhuangzi, Dances of Wanderers has another aim, that is to activate the sub-dancing life glossary in Zhuangzi so that a new understanding of heaven-man dance thoery could be vividly portrayed.