ABSTRACT
The Peking opera, Taiwanese opera, Hakka opera, and other varieties of traditional Chinese opera, demonstrate performances in movement of a stylized program shared by homogeneous contents of interoperability. Performers of Chinese opera must have their learning fostered through the processes of realization, memorization, internalization, transformation, and representation for every performance. Theoretically, there are two main types of symbolized performance styles. Chinese opera experts implied that “the performing styles conveyed by the performer are tangible, but the performance methods are intangible”. Therefore, how a performer uses intangible experience to manipulate tangible knowledge and skills is the priority of fundamental training processes in the Chinese opera curriculum. Ergonomics is used as an example in one special tangible-stylized program of Chinese opera performing skills for the female warrior (Wudan role) who is adept at rapidly handling weapons in battle such as deflecting tasseled spears with her foot. Thus, integrating ergonomics and mental model methodologies might produce a significant breakthrough application of pedagogic issues and props design in traditional Chinese opera training, and provide a means to analyze creative concepts for those intangible-stylized programs in further.
