edged: Exploring the porous boundaries between teaching philosophy, dance performance and choreographic practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Laberge-Côté
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Porous Body ◽  
Teaching Philosophy ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Over the past four years I have developed The Porous Body, a teaching philosophy that promotes the practice of heightened physical and mental malleability in dance training by following four fundamental guiding principles: flow, playfulness, metaphor and paradox. As my process deepened, I wondered: what would happen if I applied The Porous Body to my choreographic practice? How might this framework prove fruitful during a creative process? What kind of choreographic work would emerge from this experiment? This article is an artist’s reflection on an artistic experiment; it describes the first choreographic process to which I applied The Porous Body’s guiding principles, and which led to the creation and performance of edged, a solo work exploring the porous edges between inner/outer, planned/unplanned, control/surrender, pleasure/struggle and terror/courage.

scholarly journals Embodying the Site: the Here and Now in Site-Specific Dance Performance

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Spirit Of Place ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, Victoria Hunter explores the concept of the ‘here and now’ in the creation of site-specific dance performance, in response to Doreen Massey's questioning of the fixity of the concept of the ‘here and now’ during the recent RESCEN seminar on ‘Making Space’, in which she challenged the concept of a singular fixed ‘present’, suggesting instead that we exist in a constant production of ‘here and nows’ akin to ‘being in the moment’. Here the concept is applied to an analysis of the author's recent performance work created as part of a PhD investigation into the relationship between the site and the creative process in site-specific dance performance. In this context the notion of the ‘here and now’ is discussed in relation to the concept of dance embodiment informed by the site and the genius loci, or ‘spirit of place’. Victoria Hunter is a Lecturer in Dance at the University of Leeds, who is currently researching a PhD in site-specific dance performance.

scholarly journals Re-imagining Operatic "Objects": Commentary on Neumann's Phenomena, Poiesis, and Performance Profiling: Temporal-Textual Emphasis and Creative Process Analysis in Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Georgia Volioti
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Performance Profiling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
Musical Object ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
And Performance

Objects come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and forms. The notion of musical works as objects, represented by their written scores, has proved to be effete and limiting to the study of music as diverse social-cultural practice and performed craft. The past two decades have witnessed considerable efforts to renew conceptual and methodological tools, and Neumann's study makes a valuable contribution to this effect. This commentary responds to some issues raised by Neumann's article in relation to the notion of musical "object". Specifically, I retrace the shift from a score-based to a process-oriented musicology geared towards performances, placing the concerns of contemporary opera studies within this broader disciplinary change. I consider some implications of technology in mediating new operatic objects for discourse. Finally, I reflect on some of the inherent dangers of objectifying performance in empirical analyses.

Relation of Dance Skills to Body Cathexis and Locus of Control Orientation

1978 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Smith Dasch
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Negative Relation ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Control Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Body Cathexis ◽  
Internal Scale

33 subjects provided measures on extent of dance training, dance performance, locus of control orientation, and three measures of body cathexis. Pearson product-moment correlations yielded significant, though modest, positive relations between three measures of body cathexis and performance, and between time dancing and the Levenson Internal scale; and a negative relation between body cathexis 2nd the Levenson Chance scale.

scholarly journals Tokoh Kabayan Sebagai Inspirasi Torotot Heong the Song of Kabayan

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
DEDEN HAERUDIN
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Communicative Performance ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Identification Stage ◽  
And Performance

Kabayan as an Inspiration of Torotot Heong The Song Of Kabayan. The theater art creation of Torotot Heongthe Song of Kabayan is a process that is inspired by the characters of folklore in Sundanese literature, Kabayan. InSundanese society, Kabayan is a stunt character from parable, a symbolic story, in the community as a media tonotify precept or wisdom. Kabayan is regarded as character with characteristic of Sundanese culture that hold on to“Cageur jeung Bageur” living guide (hale and healthy, and kind hearted). The creation process of Torotot Heongthe Song of Kabayan is performing into several stages and working methods according to Patri Pavis. It is startedby selecting the Kabayan’s Story to under take into the script. The next stage is doing some preparation for StagingProcess. The creating process is conducted through the mise en scene show’s appearance, perform into idea identification stage, artistic observation of cultural resources, the artist perspective and performance realization. TorototHeong the Song of Kabayan performances are the ultimate stage for the creative process of the hardworking teamwith a lot of effort to accomplish a communicative performance and appreciate well by the audience.

Price of Gold and Light: Power and Politics in Hey Ananta Punya

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Munjulika Rahman
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
The State ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Light Power ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Minority Religion ◽  
And Performance

Hey Ananta Punya, a dance-drama adapted and choreographed by the Bangladeshi choreographer Warda Rihab was performed in Kolkata, India, in December 2009. Rihab plays the main character Srimoti, a dancer at the court of King Ajatashatru. Srimoti embraces Buddhism but is not allowed to practice since Ajatashatru decrees Hinduism to be the state religion. In the narrative, Hinduism, the predominant religion of India, represses Buddhism, which is a minority religion in the subcontinent. Even though on the surface the dance-drama deals with Hinduism and Buddhism, the performance is complicated by the knowledge that the choreographer and most of the performers are Bangladeshi Muslims. In the context of Hindu-Muslim conflicts and India's political and economic hegemony in South Asia, the performance can be considered as a critique of India's policies. In considering the choreographer's background and the dance-drama's narrative, aesthetics, and location of performance, I analyze the various structures of power that a Bangladeshi female choreographer operates within during her training and performance in India. Hey Ananta Punya is significant because it points to the complex web of issues involving politics, history, and religion that have been a part of dance in Bangladesh for the past few decades because of India's influence in the field, particularly through Indian-government scholarships for advanced dance training. In the paper, I use Michel Foucault's theory of power as systems of interrelated networks and knowledge as a system of power to show how dance as a form of embodied knowledge can function as a tool in shaping, disseminating, and expressing ideology.

scholarly journals Texto encarnado: uma estratégia de Descolonização

Ouvirouver ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Renata Bittenourt Meira
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Free Form ◽  
Significant Movement ◽  
Somatic Education ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Education Academic ◽  
A Performance

As experiências de criação textual juntamente com a criação de performances, apresentadas e analisadas, tem como objetivo central conectar a pesquisa e o corpo. A temática das criações foram as pesquisas acadêmicas desenvolvidas nos programas de pós graduação em artes cênicas do Instituto de Artes da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. Intimamente vinculados à ecologia de saberes e à interculturalidade os processos de criação se deram no campo da sensibilização somática e do movimento significativo. A metodologia foi experimentar o projeto de mestrado por meio da criação de uma performance e criar um texto de formato livre com espaço para manifestação de subjetividade e poesia. A proposta foi provocar o estudante de pós graduação a perceber que existe um campo invisível no conhecimento, que estrutura ou desestrutura sua pesquisa. Acessar a pesquisa por meio da corporeidade é uma busca por revelar as crenças que atravessam nossas ideias sem que percebamos, nestas crenças se estabelecem processos de colonização. Os textos e as performances resultantes mostraram que as conexões entre corpo e escrita geraram a aproximação entre o pesquisador e sua pesquisa. ABSTRACT Writing and performance were a creative process. The issue was connecting arts academic researchs with the body. The processes of creation occurred through the somatic sensitization and significant movement. The methodology was the experience of the masters project through the creation of a performance and create a free form text. The goal was to notice an invisible field in knowledge, which structures their research. The texts and performances criated by fourty students showed that the connections between body and writing approximed the researcher and his research. KEYWORDS Creative process, somatic education, academic writing.

scholarly journals Moving Spaces Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Franco ◽  
Gabriella Giannachi
Keyword(s):  
Dance Performance ◽  
European Project ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Participatory Practices ◽  
And Performance

This collection of essays investigates some of the theories and concepts related to the burgeoning presence of dance and performance in the museum. This surge has led to significant revisions of the roles and functions that museums currently play in society. The authors provide key analyses on why and how museums are changing by looking into participatory practices and decolonisation processes, the shifting relationship with the visitor/spectator, the introduction of digital practices in collection making and museum curation, and the creation of increasingly complex documentation practices. The tasks designed by artists who are involved in the European project Dancing Museums. The Democracy of Beings (2018-21) respond to the essays by suggesting a series of body-mind practices that readers could perform between the various chapters to experience how theory may affect their bodies.

LIFT and the GLC versus Thatcher: London’s Cultural Battleground in 1981

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-16
Author(s):  
Phoebe Patey-Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Central Factor ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Market Capitalism ◽  
International Festival

In 1981 Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal established the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT). While the Festival is generally recognized as having been highly influential in the field of British theatre over the past twenty-five years, it has received little academic attention. In this article Phoebe Patey-Ferguson examines the founding of the event, arguing that the specific socio-political circumstances of its early years gave shape to the innovative form of a city-based international theatre festival. The bureaucratic conflict between Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government and Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Council (GLC) is identified as a central factor in the creation of LIFT, with reference to Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the bureaucratic field and Loïc Wacquant’s development of this model in relation to neoliberal market capitalism. The article is derived from Phoebe Patey-Ferguson’s recently completed PhD on LIFT in its social, cultural, and political context at the Department of Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths, University of London.1

The Scientific Value Of Research On Mirmukhsin Fikriy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (08) ◽  
pp. 583-589
Author(s):  
Umriniso Rahmatovna Turaeva
Keyword(s):  
Political Environment ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Scientific Value

The history of the Turkestan Jadid movement and the study of Jadid literature show that it has not been easy to study this subject. The socio-political environment of the time led to the blind reduction of the history of continuous development of Uzbek literature, artificial reduction of the literary heritage of the past on the basis of dogmatic thinking, neglect of the study of works of art and literary figures. As a result, the creation of literary figures of a certain period, no matter how important, remained unexplored.

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