The Key Elements of the Transformation from Dance Studio to Professional Company in Tainan City

• Main Authors: Chia-ling Ko, 柯佳伶
• Other Authors: Hung-hui Lu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tnx83v

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 劇場藝術學系碩士班 === 102 === The number of students in dance studio has significant reduced as the times changes. Under the impact of shortage of students, the dance studio have lost their past vitality and the situation that dance studio depend on teaching operation has gone; some art directors within the studio also have turned to dance companies. However, “transformation” is chosen by many traditional dance studio as the development goal and direction; therefore, it’s crucial for most transforming or transformed dance studio that why must they transform and how to transformation. This study aimed to explore the professional dance companies organizations transformed from dance studio that continue to operate, analyze the opinions and suggestions of former experts and scholars in Grant-in-Aid Scheme to discuss the problems mentioned above. Taking four professional dance companies in Tainan City, which used to won the Cradle Plan of performance teams in Ministry of Culture as research objects, in-depth interview method was adopted to compare the histories of objects and an emerging creative dance companies; then supplemented by experts and scholars’ opinions, this study further understood the true factors of dance’s ecology and their successful transformation. Data collection methods included document analysis and case study. The main research questions were “what are the key elements to be a professional dance companies?”, “is there any interdependency between dance studio and dance companies?”and”what are the advantages of transforming into dance studio?” According to the research results, the factors of transformation can be divided into two types, first, as a dance studio is not allowed to apply for subsidy when being invited by foreign performance according to policies and regulations, it has to transform into dance companies; second, the recruitment of new members in dance companies has changed their operation mode and creating styles. In addition, the interaction between dance studio and dance companies is that most dancers can gain extra subsidy as teaching in the studio. When applying for subsidy, some dance companies’ creating styles are least favored by program committee or confront poor sales, therefore they have to make breakthrough in work creation apart from the desire to be professional dance companies, or establish good reputation among spectators through presentation to market themselves which reflect in the sales. It can be seen that whether a dance companies can have a successful transformation depends on the working direction led by art directors.