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A performance response to the theoretical notion of perception - Middlesex University March 2011
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COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES IN CHOREOGRAPHY
Research Statement - doctoral inquiry’s practical elements - July 2010
This mixed practice enquiry adopts a philosophical approach to performance, allowing for consideration the ‘intuitive mechanisms’ embedded in artists’ skills. My research also examines the recent history of collaborative choreographic practice (from the Judson Dance Theatre onwards). The practical element of this inquiry will consider in practice the ways in which my own practice has been influenced by the developments of compositions in dance and framed within the paradigm shift between modernity and post-modernity in art.
In the first stage of the project I will collaborate in the devising of a choreographic solo. I will be inviting arts practitioners to observe my process and reflect on the notion of inner collaboration within the self or what I am proposing to call the polyphonic layering of hidden voices in the creative process. The focus of the creative process will be to make manifest the complex relationship between the self-gaze, the inner voices and the intuitive sensing in operation at the moment of rehearsal. Through being observed I am aiming at producing a subtle collaborative language of access into a somatic practice. Incorporating an analysis and discussion of the initial solo, this first stage of the project will also be presented in a public performance/presentation, combining writing and performance, which will contribute to the assessment of the progression of the project from MPhil to PhD. This self-reflective element will allow me to theorise (via practice) ideas of different modes of collaboration in the creative process, including the collaboration with the ‘self/selves’ (or how decision-making in performance involves negotiating different elements of our own internal processes).
This mixed practice enquiry adopts a philosophical approach to performance, allowing for consideration the ‘intuitive mechanisms’ embedded in artists’ skills. My research also examines the recent history of collaborative choreographic practice (from the Judson Dance Theatre onwards). The practical element of this inquiry will consider in practice the ways in which my own practice has been influenced by the developments of compositions in dance and framed within the paradigm shift between modernity and post-modernity in art.
In the first stage of the project I will collaborate in the devising of a choreographic solo. I will be inviting arts practitioners to observe my process and reflect on the notion of inner collaboration within the self or what I am proposing to call the polyphonic layering of hidden voices in the creative process. The focus of the creative process will be to make manifest the complex relationship between the self-gaze, the inner voices and the intuitive sensing in operation at the moment of rehearsal. Through being observed I am aiming at producing a subtle collaborative language of access into a somatic practice. Incorporating an analysis and discussion of the initial solo, this first stage of the project will also be presented in a public performance/presentation, combining writing and performance, which will contribute to the assessment of the progression of the project from MPhil to PhD. This self-reflective element will allow me to theorise (via practice) ideas of different modes of collaboration in the creative process, including the collaboration with the ‘self/selves’ (or how decision-making in performance involves negotiating different elements of our own internal processes).
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