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Organization / Workplace
Los Angeles, California
Occupation
Art critic / Journalist
About
I-Wen Chang is a Culture and Performance Ph.D. student at the department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance in the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a MA degree in Art Theory and Criticism from the Taipei National University of the Arts. Her master thesis is titled "Beyond Representation?Interpreting Pina Bausch's Dance Theater and Its Significance to the Contemporary Arts." At doctoral level, her research interests include phenomenology in social dance, corporeal representations, gender issues, cultural hegemony, and post colonialism. Specifically, she focuses on how pair-dancing becomes a means of communication and enables social mobility, how corporeal practices construct nat