“NYAM CHIEM” RECONSTRUCTING AND PERFORMING NIGHTMARE: A DANCE RESEARCH IN PERFORMANCE OF SLEEP PARALYSIS.

This paper is a documentation of a practice-based dance work of the creative process, research and performance presentation of the piece “Nyam chiem.” This thesis examines the phenomenon of sleep paralysis through a personal reflexive research. The work challenges the notion that sleep paralysis is evil, revealing the phenomenon as a part of the human experience. The research is in two parts, practical and theory. The practical component includes; dance rehearsals, and staging of the piece as presentation. The theoretical component includes the documentation of the work in a written format capturing my personal stories, and salient issues arising from the process into a scholarly paper.

Department dc:contributor.department

Dance

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Emoghene, Sinclair Ogaga

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Bradley, Karen K

Language dc:language.iso

en

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.13016/M20B6C

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:drum.lib.umd.edu:1903/18400