Feeling Subtle: A Practice-Based Study of How the Body Listens, Tunes in, and Becomes Present in Performance (and in COVID-Time)

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dc.contributor.advisorCouroux, Marc G.
dc.contributor.authorPederson, Kari Lynn
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-08T15:57:55Z
dc.date.available2022-08-08T15:57:55Z
dc.date.copyright2022-05-19
dc.date.issued2022-08-08
dc.date.updated2022-08-08T15:57:55Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis is an embodied research project that explores the subtle, unseeable, unhearable forces at work within performance. It uses a common improvisational duet as its anchor, the rules for which seem paradoxical: move in perfect unison and at the same time, but neither dancer can initiate movement, both must follow. Despite this, a choreography unfolds. The structure of this research project is an exploration of why this is so, and along the way uncovers applicable information to common, yet esoteric performance techniques: listening, tuning in, and becoming present. This project posits that the improvisation works because its slowness and focus allows for a magnification of the charged affect potential between the two dancers, referred to throughout as the "bloom space." The paradoxical task of mimicking a partner in real time, without initiating movement, is an attempt to stay in or stay with the bloom space. Even though neither dancer can initiate movement, the dancers begin to move because bodies and the moment are never still; they are teeming with affect, and affect moves. The dancers are able to mimic one another through the freneticism of affect potential and kinaesthesis. The research takes place over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is thus influenced by this unexpected context.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39669
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectTheater
dc.subject.keywordsAffect
dc.subject.keywordsDance
dc.subject.keywordsChoreography
dc.subject.keywordsTheatre
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance
dc.subject.keywordsEcology
dc.subject.keywordsListening
dc.subject.keywordsTune in
dc.subject.keywordsAffective ecology
dc.subject.keywordsAffect theory
dc.subject.keywordsSound studies
dc.subject.keywordsVibration model
dc.subject.keywordsPresence
dc.subject.keywordsMeditation
dc.subject.keywordsInterdisciplinary
dc.subject.keywordsThe body
dc.subject.keywordsThe relational body
dc.subject.keywordsPractice based research
dc.subject.keywordsPractice led research
dc.subject.keywordsStanislavsky
dc.subject.keywordsJulian Henriques
dc.subject.keywordsPauline Oliveros
dc.subject.keywordsDeborah Kapchan
dc.subject.keywordsDoing nothing
dc.subject.keywordsBloom space
dc.subject.keywordsMimesis
dc.subject.keywordsKinaesthesis
dc.subject.keywordsSuasan Leigh Foster
dc.subject.keywordsAnna Gibbs
dc.subject.keywordsNatasha Meyers
dc.subject.keywordsCarla Hustak
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodied research
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenology
dc.subject.keywordsPandemic
dc.subject.keywordsCOVID 19
dc.subject.keywordsParadox
dc.subject.keywordsSound body
dc.subject.keywordsSonic body
dc.subject.keywordsWhat the body can do
dc.subject.keywordsCharles Darwin
dc.subject.keywordsEvolution
dc.subject.keywordsInvolution
dc.subject.keywordsThinking through the body
dc.subject.keywordsBecoming with
dc.subject.keywordsMirroring
dc.subject.keywordsMirror duet
dc.subject.keywordsTheatre practice
dc.subject.keywordsDance practice
dc.subject.keywordsImprovisation
dc.subject.keywordsImprovisational dance
dc.subject.keywordsImprovisational performance
dc.subject.keywordsBreath meditation
dc.subject.keywordsKinaesthetic empathy
dc.subject.keywordsKinaesthesia
dc.subject.keywordsMimicry
dc.subject.keywordsAffect potential
dc.subject.keywordsBody listening
dc.subject.keywordsVibrotactile
dc.subject.keywordsNon-verbal communication
dc.subject.keywordsSlent communication
dc.subject.keywordsSenses
dc.subject.keywordsSynaesthesia
dc.subject.keywordsResounding subject
dc.subject.keywordsBorderless body
dc.subject.keywordsRelational subject
dc.subject.keywordsRelational ecology
dc.subject.keywordsYvonne Rainer
dc.subject.keywordsJenny Odell
dc.subject.keywordsBody is never still
dc.subject.keywordsAffect contagion
dc.subject.keywordsFeeling
dc.subject.keywordsSensing
dc.subject.keywordsEmpathy
dc.subject.keywordsCOVID time
dc.subject.keywordsRichard Serra
dc.subject.keywordsBoomerang
dc.subject.keywordsNancy Holt
dc.titleFeeling Subtle: A Practice-Based Study of How the Body Listens, Tunes in, and Becomes Present in Performance (and in COVID-Time)
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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