Using Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative to Determine the Cultural Hybridity of Modern Dance: Based on American Dance Festival Lifetime Achievement Award

Abstract

Objective: This research uses Homi Baba’s theory of cultural hybridity to analyze how these cultural hybrid elements are incorporated into the formation of modern dance.   Theoretical framework: Fifteen dances with cultural hybrid characteristics by contemporary choreographers who have won the American Modern Dance Festival Lifetime Achievement Award were selected as the research objects, and five conditional variables were identified to examine the phenomenon of different cultural hybridity in modern dance. Crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA) was used to determine the relationship of cultural variables in the dances.   Method: The crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA) in the qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) by Charles Larkin was conducted for analysis.   Results and conclusion: Three cultural variables' combinations of dances that can get high attention were obtained. The result shows that "integration of cultural ideological content" is the most important cultural variable.   Implications of the research: From the perspective of the combination approach, the dances that mixed with action language, cultural symbolic props, and cultural ideological content had the highest coverage score, which also means that it is easier to get high attention.