The role of performance in healing: A personal reflective journey

摘要

Performance can be used as a means of communication in performance studies and as a treatment medium in drama therapy. This article shows autoethnographic performance could heal the personal pain and cultural wound, and could balance personal and professional, English and Chinese, and mind and body. In this journey, I performed both roles of myself and Laozi, the Chinese philosopher and the father of Taoism, in dialogue. In this article, the readers can watch and hear the authentic and therapeutic impact of the autoethnographic performances embodied by myself as a scholar in communication and performance studies in the academic and pedagogical setting.