| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 族群關係與文化研究所 === 98 === This study explored the course of Taiwanese tap dancers’ body practice in the contemporary culture flows of globalization and localization through the analysis of tap dance-related film and advertisements, the formation of tap dance community and its ritual activities, together with the discussion of the perception of dancers’ physical sentiment and gesture. The “tap dance” image constructed by the media after the 2000s, associated with the tap dance which has been introduced into Taiwan in the 1950s, both initiated the blooming of tap dance in Taiwan and assembled tap dance groups in recent years. In the development process of Taiwanese tap dance groups, the dancers shaped another definition and discourse of tap dance which are different from other dance styles through interpretation, consultation and practical activities. Taiwanese tap dance participants, by means of going abroad for new methods and inviting virtuosos to give lessons to the local community, absorbed American culture into Taiwan to form a “symbolic action”, and as a result built hierarchic groups that shared the experience of physical perception and action. The author analyzed both the dancers’ practical activities and body movements and discovered that American tap dance reconstructed a tap dance community and another cultural significance in Taiwan. The concept of meaning can be regarded as a kind of reterritorialization after the deterritorialization of cultural mobility. However, in Taiwan, the de/reterritorialization phenomenon of tap dance is different from the general discussion of globalization. There is no scenario of “time-space compression” or “time-space distanciation” posed by globalization. Through the transaction of time and space, tap dance in Taiwan created the cross-country distance of symbolic hierarchy -- a hierarchic difference which can not be overtaken.
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