Peach Blossom Spring

Calligraphic Dance is proposed as a new artform that adopts somaesthetics approaches in the audio-visual dance system to enhance the consciousness of our bodily perception, promote engagement of our surrounding environment with self-expression, cultivate the spiritual connections of people to self-fashioning and appreciation and inspire users creatively explore their body contributing to generative arts. The new artform also manifest people’s sensory perception to Chinese calligraphy culture by embodied experience.

The demonstration of the system uses a Chinese poem, The Peach Blossom Spring, written by Tao Yuan-ming in 421 CE as an exploration of mythically celestial and unrealistically ideal utopia under the cruelty of social unrest and political instability in the Jin Dynasty. The dancer uses different contours of varying speed and spacing to channel traditional two-dimensional Chinese calligraphy into her original oeuvres of writing, painting and dancing in three-dimensional space.