抄録
This paper examines one of the characters of improvisational dance through studying a
multicultural art project. In the project, contemporary dancer Midori Kurata had dialogue with the
elderly in the nursery home of old Korean neighborhood in Kyoto to make dance performance with
them. When she introduced herself as a dancer, she performed ballet style dance in front of those
who asked her to do so during the dialogue. At that point she showed inconsistent behavior: while
denying verbally her ballet style dance, she kept showing it to the elderly. We see here emerging her
improvisational dance and compare it to some descriptions made by other contemporary dancers to
grasp an idea of improvisational dance as constructing relationships that reconfigures each different
body who participates in the situation. By filed research and interviews of Kurata, we analyze how
dialogue with the elderly influenced her understating of the elderly’s total existence, and how her
dance in front of them reflects their dialogue and embodies the feature of improvisational dance. At
the end, we verify the improvisational dance was used effectively in her performance to convey who
performers are under their unique relationships.
