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A seventeen-year-old girl grew up in a middle-class family with a controlling mother and a silent father, embracing a long-standing single-minded pursuit of education. Literature became her sole outlet, shaping a soul that was both restrained and romantic, compliant yet rebellious. Subsequently, I evolved into a wanderer in search of my own body. "Street dance" revealed the potential of possessing a "self" and marked the beginning of my journey into dance. Dancing became the most direct external manifestation of my internal "forces." The questions of why I danced and how dance disappeared to transform the art of "dance" into an internal language and genuine practice. My writing style inevitably intertwined with my dance and movement experiences. The constraints of structure generated a desire for movement. Different spaces influenced her bodily perceptions and ways of observation. With the passage of time, new experiences and understandings emerged, allowing me to navigate between different boundaries. To me, "her place" represented where a woman should be, but why that specific place? As a result, my dance journey ceased to be solely about external, visible actions; instead, it became an interplay of internal, perceptual, and visionary transformations and dialectics.
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