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PERSUASIVE SPEECH ANALYSIS Video Why dance is NOT a universal language By Fangfei Miao | TEDxUofM Link Why dance is NOT a universal language | Fangfei Miao | TEDxUofM COMMENTARY SPEECH The speaker int.
PERSUASIVE SPEECH ANALYSIS Video: Why dance is NOT a universal language - By Fangfei Miao | TEDxUofM Link: Why dance is NOT a universal language | Fangfei Miao | TEDxUofM COMMENTARY SPEECH The speaker introduces herself and her background By showing her accomplishment in dancing, the speaker establishes her credibility and also gains the audience’s attention My name is Fangfei Miao and I am an assistant professor in the department of dance at the University of Michigan Usually, I am not a mind reader, but quite often after I introduce myself to other people under this title, I am pinned down somehow as just a dancer just being Chinese I am a dancer, but I am also the first dancer from the people's republic of China who received a Ph.D in the US Yes, there are some and many Ph.D programs in the US that focus on critical dance studies and I graduated from one of them The speaker reveals the topic and her perspective which is in between the US and China She also explains why people assume that dance is a universal language I am Chinese, but I am also an outside insider in between the US and China, and an eyewitness crossing over conversations artistically and societally in every single day of my life Today with this position as an artist scholar and outside insider, I would like to talk about how dance is not a universal language Dance seems like a universal language because artists around the world all use the same instrument the human bodies But this concept really overweights the significant complexities underneath it The speaker introduces how she organizes her speech and what she uses to represent the US and China And from now on, she uses her body language which is different dances to illustrate her speech effectively And today I would like to talk a little bit more about those complexities through a performative talk I will divide the stage into two parts: one representing the US and one representing China just gave me one second to bring out my props Yeah, I know why papers, why not they are very convenient to carry The speaker moves into the first part of the body of her talk, in which she explains the question “why dance is not a universal language” as an artist As I step onto the position as an artist I work very hard to make meaningful communications to my audiences While at the same time, not pondering to their expectations This is not a universal body, it's a body marked by race and gender, and size and so many other things It invites different expectations from different audiences The speaker gives examples from her own experiences as an artist who performs in the US and China Therefore, she points out the differences between the mindset of audiences in the US and China For example, in the US, my body is pretty much marked by race and gender My audience rates me as a body of a Chinese woman instead of the body of a white man Whatever I on stage, they tend to relate that to some Tai Chi performance and to my race even though that is not my intention at all As I go across the border to China, my Chinese audience rates me more as a trained body because there are so many dancing Chinese women on stage This body becomes the norm My audience would expect to see more virtuosic performances to show our proficiency like jumps or spins or this leg raised really really really high, which I cannot anymore The speaker links the example with her speech at the present, which makes her example more vivid As an artist, I try to unpack those different expectations, but at the same time confront my audience directly through a performative talk, like the one that I am doing right now Moving to the next position, as a scholar, the speaker shows that the connection between the audience and the performer is highly influenced by many other factors, and that’s why dance is not universal As I step away from this position as an artist and I step onto this position as a scholar, I bring a crosscultural dimension to the scholarly conversations in the English English-speaking academia about how dance is not universal, but rather socially, historically, culturally, politically constructed There is no universal way to appreciate dance There's no direct connection between the audience and the performer, but rather there exists that indirect connection that is highly influenced by society, history, culture, politics, and many other things The speaker gives examples from her own experiences when she performs in the US and China She concluded that both the audiences from the two countries didn’t get what she tried to transmit to them They also have different understandings and misunderstandings For example, in the US, many years ago I performed a solo to show my sincere pursuit of my dream At the beginning of the dance, I was performing on the floor to show my longing for my dream and then my resolution to achieve it In the second half of the dance, I performed by standing up to show the obstacles that I faced with However, my American audiences read that piece as an abstract development of certain movement motifs They didn't get my specific expression As I want across the border to China, my Chinese audiences read the piece as evolution for them At first, I was performing a fish swimming in the pool and then I became a reptile trying to search for food, and I became a gorilla trying to stand up, and eventually, the human being standing upright My Chinese audiences didn't get my specific expression either She shows that different socio-historical circumstances bring different influences to the audience even with the same dance performance As a scholar, I study the socio-historical circumstances that these audiences are in and how that influenced their contrasting readings of the same dance performance I also study what understandings and misunderstandings emerge from that indirect connection The speaker signals the end of the talk She explains the reason why she chooses the topic and then emphasizes the topic that “dance is not a universal language” Throughout the talk, she uses the method of reasoning from specific As I step away from this position of a scholar and onto the last piece of paper, you know that I start to conclude this talk You are right, here it comes Artistically and scholarly speaking death is not a universal language I choose this topic today instances because I am in deep love with dance I don't want it to be seen as something very superficial and just a physical performance That is profound, there is intellectual, there's this cultural, history, society, politics, memories, rituals, combinations of them, and so much more The speaker reaffirms her role to build terminal credibility so that her speech could be more effective and convincing This is why I didn't choose to talk about the Chinese stuff tonight because similar to dance, I am much more profound and complicated than how I look As an artist and a scholar an outside insider, I am standing in between the US and China and icds connect people together It makes very interesting confusions but it is those confusions that bring us together so that I can talk about dance today Thank you very much ... raised really really really high, which I cannot anymore The speaker links the example with her speech at the present, which makes her example more vivid As an artist, I try to unpack those different... them, and so much more The speaker reaffirms her role to build terminal credibility so that her speech could be more effective and convincing This is why I didn't choose to talk about the Chinese