performance by understanding the essence of the meanings of the most important flow experiences and the relations between
dancers and their emotional states when university modern dancers dance.
To accomplish these goals, this study will clarify some problems. First, which flow experience do dancers have through
dancing activities. Second, how do changes in flow experience appear depending on dancers' emotions.
For this study, participants in the study were five college students with a modern dance career of five years or longer and
data was collected through in-depth interviews and participant observation. According to a phenomenological analysis which
can represent and interpret the emotional states of dancers, their flow experience and other experiences of those dancers'
emotional states and flow experience, the first element, , lower elements, `features at the
moment of flow', `perception of flow phenomena' and `phenomena of non-flow', were deducted. The sencond element,
, was categorized into positive emotion and negative emotion.
The researcher who looked into the above-mentioned correlations between university modern dancers' emotional states and
experience phenomena found that not just positive emotion promoted immersion, but negative emotion from observing their
inner aspects could make them become immersed. When they were having a flow experience, they were partially or totally
immersed in their bodies and perceiving them, implying that such perception is a sensuous perception and shows their
individual life at the same time. Such perception will raise the educational values of dance and be basic data for effective
dance performance.