A Study On Plaza Dancing Groups Identity With An Urban Space Perspective

In recent years, the square dance in our cities and towns increasingly popular.Square Dance related news often hit the newspapers, or on a Square Dance Mother wonderful innovation, or on noise nuisance Square Dance incurred conflict, and even out of China to the world, will square dancing aunt jumped France Louvre United States,New York.Square dance while pandemic caused international media attention, academic research on the square dance is also increasing. I can not help thinking, why on China’s square can form such a unique landscape, the square of the space in the end what kind of society bears significance.With the city’s development and progress of society, people have developed to the city square space from pure material needs in the direction of the spiritual needs of, and demand will inevitably lead to social interaction behavior of people in the square space,thus derived from a variety of social relations, Square Dance is the most typical example.From the perspective of urban space, and to explore the behavior of this group at the event plaza space, spatial perception and has the identity.In this paper, characterized as research methods, many parks for a square dance team performed a case study, through observation and in-depth interviews, I found that many parks square dance the participants were women, who are in retirement or idle state Fu,leisure time than more to focus on family life, square dance become their life can be released and a way of self-publicity. In the plaza space, or reinvent yourself or enhance their existing self-identity; in addition, the square outside recreational activities can also increase the social capital of participants of reality. Repeated regularly participate square dance, dance space allows participants to have a strong sense of belonging in the field.