Identity Shifting Movement In Dance

In this study,in order to answer the question of what are being shifted with the identity shifting process, This paper has been organized in three section based on philosophical framework, which is the shifting of movement, the shifting of knowledge and the shifting of interpretation.

The first section of this paper sets out to investigate the movement shifting as the change of the way of body move. This section will determine the differences of technique and the essential of movement in ballet and contemporary dance as the symbol of body shifting by the theory of anthropology, in particular, through an in-depth study of the sense of touch, kinaesthesia and the essential of movement in ballet and contemporary dance to further explain the
The ballet dancers have to control the body's weight in order to achieve a fast and agile quality of movement and the felling of floating in the air. Besides, another common but crucial sense in contemporary dance is touch. This kind of touch especially is used by contact improvisation. According to the author's interpretation, contact improvisation is "movement are generated through the improvement of physical contact of one body with another.” In classical ballet, the contact movement is mainly present in Pas de deux. However, the touch in ballet and contemporary dance have completely different concept and feeling. For example, in contact improvisation class, the movement is happening randomly, the any part of body can be connected and touched, and the weight of contact between the two dancer is determined by themselves. This kind of touch is difficult for ballerina because contact improvisation requires to feel the weight of dancer self and partner, one have to focus on the resistance and absorption of the weight and change the movement or posture to maintain the contact of bodies. Dancer must let the weight to lead the change of movement, rather then the individual initiative to produce the steps. On the other hand, the touch of ballet in Pas de deux is another concept. Ballerina needs to keep their balance and control of the movement, they cannot be the same as contact improvisation to exert weight and touch to their partner. The touch movement in ballet in based on lift and turn, other times, male dancer just hand gently to maintain the stability of the modeling and moving of the ballerina. In ballet, the touch can be understand as the achievement of ballerina’s perfect movement by the help of male dancers, so that ballerina can move elegantly and airily. But the touch in contemporary dance, especially in