TITLE:
The Intervention of Anxiety Symptoms by Using Improvisational Chinese Classical Dance
AUTHORS:
Lanye Wang
KEYWORDS:
Improvisational Chinese Classical Dance, Laban Movement Analysis, Anxiety Symptoms, Social Isolation
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.9,
August
5,
2022
ABSTRACT: Under
the severe situation of COVID-19, millions of people start to appear stratified
overdriven symptoms, including physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral
reactions. In 2022, China implemented a social distracting policy that
increased several people who stay at home to suffer from anxious and depressed
emotional, as well as insomnia. To some degree, it is an imperious demand for
people to seek an automatic adjustment method to regulate emotion. This
paper is conducted to explore the impromptu intervention of Chinese classical
dance on the emotional distress caused by social isolation, such as loneliness, anxiety, and insomnia,
using the aspect of Laban Movement Analysis to increase the efficiency of
emotional elasticity. The researcher in this paper
analyzes the characteristics of Chinese classical dance
through the aspects of Laban Movement Analysis, and conducts a
5-person experiment group, coaching them to
dance improvised Chinese Classical Dance and comparing their interview about their emotions before and after the
research. Impromptu
Chinese Classical Dance cannot only intervene and regulate emotions through its
specific movement characteristics, but it can also enhance people’s emotional
resilience through a rich library of movements.