Abstract
This study is a qualitative study borrows the auto-ethnography of exploring the experiences and meanings of dance professionals after job conversion to line dance instructor. Interviews and observational data with five research participants’ responses who share the same life trajectory with the researcher, were collected. The results were categorized into ‘the passion for dancing is revived’, ‘effort and pleasure for me’, ‘learning and lessons through human relationships’, ‘importance of digital information technology’, and ‘happiness of living in a busy life’. Through these careers, dance professionals who couldn’t give up working in dance succeeded in challenging themselves into the unfamiliar field of the same dance field. The meanings obtained from the professional dancers'' carrier as line dance instructors were derived from ''the second life of a dancer'', ''a life of change and growth'', and ''a life looking forward to the future''. In other words, They referred “I regained confidence as I grew and changed through line dance instructor, which gave the expectation that I would live with dancing without stopping dancing work.” In conclusion, it was derived that dance professionals not only enabled their activities in the field but also experienced learning, challenges, and hope in their entire lives through the carrier of line dance instructors.
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