Dance Studio / Clearing Conversations

• Dance Studio/Clearing Conversations – Conversations with dance knowledge” is a development work by Chrysa Parkinson, Professor of Dance, and Frank Bock, Senior Lecturer in Choreography, and Andrew Hardwidge.The research is a conversation format that prioritizes movement between textures, atmospheres, qualities, and metaphors to express meaning and knowledge. By balancing somatic experience and language-based exchanges the research prioritizes nuances that emerge between people, places and things in activated space and time. The research is experimenting with question formation, spatial contexts and using simple materials in conversation. The process is documented by objects, texts, drawings, and audio files.The aim of the research has been to develop research methods that can emphasize the authorship, materials and processes of dance and dancers within social and aesthetic discourses of dance and art practices and have direct applications in teaching processes.Research questions have included:What is the best medium for documenting dance artists’ knowledge and thought processes?How do dance artists experience, observe, think about, and experiment with their work?How does dance knowledge situate itself in people’s lives when they leave the field?By developing conversational formats that cultivate a dynamic balance between somatic and language-based expressions of knowledge, the project hopes to enrich the dance field’s discourse. Working with somatic experience to elucidate and challenge language-based experience is relevant to knowledge development in many fields and supports diverse approaches to education.

• The research has been carried out between 2018-2022.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Scenkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Performing Arts (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Dance

Choreography

Artistic Practices

Artistic Practices

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kfu (subject category)