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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing"”.
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I shudder to think: performance as philosophy
… the body’s visceral capacities to perceive and to transform experience into material realities, which then become the substance of art. In order that this research project may take a congruent (or kind of equivalent) form to its proposition, this journey through Cameron’s practice is also a …
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Hyperrealism and the everyday in creative practice : exegesis, play, novel
The aim of this exegesis, play and novel is to develop a practice-led poetics of everyday theatre and literature. This emerged from a research question about the way the everyday is constituted within my own practice and within contemporary theatre in Melbourne and overseas. The major component of …
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Shoulder to the wind : a lyrical evocation of the Bogong High Plains
This thesis comes in two parts. In the first instance it is a journey into the space and light, the wetlands and the wildflowers, the rocks and creatures and winds of the high plateau region of Australia’s south-east corner. Within this elongated spine of high country rise the Bogong High Plains, a …
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'Hidden stitches, silent chords : a play in monologues' and 'Exegesis : a stitching from the inside out (including an audio CD featuring my original song, None Can Name)
… CD featuring my original song, None Can Name) and an accompanying exegesis, Stitching from the Inside Out. The playscript was written in acknowledgement of my grandmothers and is inspired by my only tangible connection with them, their needlework. Hidden Stitches, Silent Chords is aimed at …
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Moving pictures: dance screen making as a choreographic process
… is a practice led enquiry made up of two parts: a work for screen entitled Under the Weather, and an exegesis. The purpose of the research is to identify key meeting points between the disciplines of dance and film in the creation of a dance screen work, and to illuminate the possibilities …
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Moving words : five instances of dance writing
Writing has been cast as monstrous – or at least violent – in its ability to disfigure, maim and destroy the life of live arts. Yet for many dance practitioners, writing is an integral part of studio-based dance processes, a necessary form of reflection and a site for creative experimentation and …
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Memos: the imagination of memory
This work involves various systems and methods of trying to remember and looking and searching for memory in many real and imagined places. In this book I will be discussing my research process, inspirations and how I arrived at the final performance. This writing is an excursion in and around the …
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Dark Park: visceral experiments with narrative in dance theatre
… dance theatre. Following the work of Pina Bausch and Lloyd Newson it investigates processes for integrating narrative with the abstract properties of dance. Whilst Bausch and Newson have approached narrative from divergent perspectives, both have utilised it in ways that embrace ambiguity, …
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History of a particular it: a fictional narrative of practice
… with finding ways to present, interrogate and speak about practice – through, in and as practice. Encompassing the practices of dancing and writing, the inquiry seeks to resist the codification, definition and traditions of formal discourse, and to unsettle the hold of the conceptual. The …
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The form of possibilities : the body remembered and remembering in the built environment
… process of Ideokinesis, as an embodied and performed methodology, where my work is in direct dialogue with a unique system of movement and postural training developed by Mabel Todd, Barbara Clark, and Lulu Sweigard. Its functioning is not with ‘actual’ movement but with virtual and …
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Morphia series
… that life hovers somewhere between the ordinary and the metaphysical. A lone figure and a place the size of an ordinary room contrast an on-going sense of seclusion and solitude with the potential for action and disturbance.
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Beyond the studio: the creative process in local, site-related dance
… research thesis comprises a dance performance and a written exegesis that will make salient and analyse the creative process in site-related choreography. The work explores the repercussions of moving dance making activities away from the traditional studio and considers how choreographic …
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Shifting sounds: music as a ritual of transformation
… arguing that its performative form reflects and reinforces a particular worldview and its concomitant social structures and relations. It proposes a definition of a standard Western form of music performance, identifying it to be based on a duality of an active performer and passive audience, …
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Music and community development: perspectives on relationships, roles and structures in music in community
… around the various inherent relationships, roles and structures involved. It does so through a prism of the researcher’s own collaborative work with others in educational, professional and community settings via the collection of respondent data around general questions about music, culture, …
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Service station : straying the Australian landscape : a modern Aussie ballad opera
… in from two miles up? Have you travelled thousands of kilometres world-wide by motor vehicle, round mazes of freeways and off the beaten track? Set against this activity are interruptions, intended or unintended; a necessary fuel stop, an unforeseen accident, R&R, times to debrief, reflect and …
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My life is over now : a novel and critical commentary
My aim in writing this novel is to give readers a new experience, one that will force them to reassess their views, opinions and beliefs, so that they will alter the way they look at the world - specifically here, how they look at family relationships and conflicts, at women and mothering, and at …
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Treasure : an exploration in the writing of the self
… consists of (Vol. 1) the critical component and (Vol. 2) the auto/biographical-based novel TREASURE. The title of the overall project is TREASURE: An Exploration in the Writing of the Self. The critical component addresses issues of feminist theorists seeking a 'new' space for women's …
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Eating the underworld : a memoir in three voices
… remember different moments from the same events and others will remember the same moments differently. To decide to tell one's story publicly, is a difficult decision. To decide to tell a story that involves others is even more difficult. Despite the fact that my sister and later my father have …
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Shifting: the creation and theoretical exploration of a collaborative autobiographical novel
This Master of Arts thesis has two parts: a collaborative autobiographical novel Shifting, written by Helen and Serge Cerne, and a theoretical commentary which explores aspects of collaborative writing. The research material in this thesis has come from a variety of resources: primary and secondary …
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Deluge : a collection of original poetry with exegesis
… human environment of my life in Geelong and the Western Districts over the past twenty years. In many ways they are celebrations and observations, although some of the poems are critical in their stance. The second book of poems. Deluge, is a collection of twenty-three long poems set in …
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