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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Body In Performance"”.
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Action poetry : the vocal-body in performance art
This thesis explores the relationships between performance art, poetry, sound poetry and page-based scores in order to develop ‘action poetry’ as a new transdisciplinary field that foregrounds the ‘vocal-body’ in performance art. Driven by my own creative practice —through the artworks and …
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The Choteadora's Body in Performance: Carmelita Tropicana and the Intersectional Strategy of Choteo
… undertakes an analysis of Carmelita Tropicana’s body in performance as it enacts “self” across the representational strategy of choteo. Carmelita Tropicana is the performance persona of Cuban-American, queer performer Alina Troyano. Choteo is a representational strategy that irreverently subverts …
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Mask Performance and The Imaging Consciousness: The relationship between body and non-body in performance
… Sartre’s theories of the ‘analogon’ and the imaging consciousness to develop the relationship between body and object in mask performance (Sartre, 1948:23). I suggest that the idea of the analogon allows for the body to be extended through, or invested into, objects to make new bodies (Shephard …
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Homebody
… I build my practice as an artist. By closely examining my chosen artistic site, the home, and my artistic medium, the body in performance, I hope to clarify the Submitted to the Department of Architecture on August 8, medium, the body in performance, I hope to clarify the 2008 intentions of my …
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Performing exile: Cuban-American women’s performance art, 1972-2014
This dissertation examines Ana Mendieta, Carmelita Tropicana, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Coco Fusco together, arguing that their work embodies diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba in the late twentieth century, such as the 1960 embargo and 2001 Third Border Initiative. Case …
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Working theory : an analysis of the use and misuse performance tools
In this paper, I work through some of the theoretical and practical research concerns which have emerged during my MA in Theatre Making, including the Minor, Medium and Major projects developed as part of its coursework component. I begin with an outline of my core hermeneutic lenses, describing …
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How the lived experiences of black women can be understood through devised theatre informed by psychophysical actor training: an adaptation of the Tadashi Suzuki actor training technique
In this study I aim to use my body as a tool to derive themes for use in performance making and to underpin this in theory. I focus on aspects of Tadashi Suzuki (1986) actor training (referred to as Suzuki training), free writing and the body. I use black feminism, cognitive neuroscience and body …
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Agential realism and the “female harpist”: The relational ontology of genderharp in Georges Aperghis’ Fidélité (1982)
The confluence of feminist scholar Karen Barad’s critical theories (agential realism, posthumanist performativity, posthumanism, new materialism) and Greek-French composer Georges Aperghis’ solo harp work Fidélité: pour harpiste seule regardée par un homme (“for female harpist watched by a man”) …
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"The Practicality of the Impossible": studies in 20th- and 21st-century piano études
This thesis examines piano études by John Cage, György Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow, and Nicole Lizée that push the limits of the human body in performance. The thesis opens with an account of the origins of the piano étude in the works of Chopin and Liszt, situating it within the political, economic, …
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Genital sensation: abrasive bodies in feminist performance
… practice of “cunt art” as a diverse range of feminist performative works that represent the female genitalia and questions whether vulvar works can disrupt the phallocentric models of exclusion, absence and lack. Working from a poststructuralist perspective and drawing on notions of the feminist …
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Drawing, Interpretation and Costume Design: a study of the costumed body informed by watching 'Tanztheater Wuppertal' in rehearsal and performance
… of theory to record and analyse the costumed body in performance. While costume scholarship has gained momentum in recent years, this is the first research project to fully explore the application of drawing blind as a means of documenting a researcher’s response to the costumed body. This …
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Dancing in the Dark: described dances and unseen choreographies
This thesis enquires how a rethinking of sight as the primary sense for experiencing dance performance can instigate new choreographies that embody the interplay between seen and unseen, described and not described, inside and outside, subject and object. By ‘unseen’ I mean invisible to the eye but …
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Locating: Place and the Moving Body
… research project physically and theoretically investigates a relationship between body and place, via site-specific performance-making processes in diverse Australian sites. It encompasses the creation of two live performances and a video installation, the development of which are documented …
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Female bodies as text : disobedient representations of the witch
… production, Hex, from conception through to performance. As a Masters student in Theatre-making with a leaning towards performance, my particular area of focus is the physical: female bodies as text. To delineate this further, I concentrate on disobedient representations of the witch: what …
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The choreography of the classroom: performance and embodiment in teaching
"The body is central to all human interaction and is literally the instrument through which teachers communicate. The topic of embodiment has increasingly been addressed in the literature on Education and more broadly in the Social Sciences, however there are few accounts of what embodiment looks …
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Bodycloth in Performance Art
Bodycloth is a term coined to describe a third entity which emerges when the boundaries between body and cloth (as separate elements) collapse. This artistic research thesis analyses a variety of inter-relations between body and cloth, as well as various modes of adornment and utilisations in order …