The Return of Actors’ Body Essence in Theaters

Abstract

Experimental theaters of dance and drama are gaining international attention for finding unique aesthetics core of Chinese traditional philosophy.Via actors’ body to embody mans’ inner world without lines artists had been seeking more primitive and sheer forms of artistic expression like the ancients.From the perspective of Somaesthetics,this paper discusses the Chinese traditional somaesthetic consciousness embodied in Dance Theater and Physical Theater.Then we recapitulate viewpoints of body in Chinese traditional philosophy that found expression in Somaesthetics proposed by Richard Schusterman.A type of new relationship of actors and spectators will be the field that is worth to develop further in dramatic aesthetics.