Revolutionary Forms: Unsettling Dance Through Site-Relational and Transformative Aesthetics

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dc.contributor.advisorNorman, Tracey
dc.contributor.authorGorman, Rachel Da Silveira
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-08T15:57:28Z
dc.date.available2022-08-08T15:57:28Z
dc.date.copyright2022-05-17
dc.date.issued2022-08-08
dc.date.updated2022-08-08T15:57:28Z
dc.degree.disciplineDance
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractReflecting on ways in which site-specificity in dance reproduces settler colonial logics, this thesis seeks to address questions about relationships of embodiment and land in screendance, remote interactive performance, and the proscenium theatre. Through close readings of work by Indigenous artists Dana Claxton and Michael Greyeyes, I consider ways in which these artworks enact decolonial aesthetics of embodiment and land. Through practice-led research creating short screendance works House, Bed Effigy, and Garden, I shift my improvisational approach from site-interactive to site-relational. Stretching or transforming aspects of the form, I develop ways to use screendance and online performance to account for my actual, emplaced location as a settler. I explore kinesthetic learning to help me to grasp and transform aspects of my choreographic process that reproduce settler colonial logics. Finally, through the production of a dance theatre work, Golem, I explore decolonial possibilities for dance in the proscenium theatre.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39665
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectArt criticism
dc.subject.keywordsDecolonizing dance
dc.subject.keywordsSite-specific dance
dc.subject.keywordsOnline performance
dc.subject.keywordsDance theatre
dc.subject.keywordsScreen dance
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous artists
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist video art
dc.subject.keywordsDisability arts
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance art
dc.subject.keywordsDecolonial aesthetics
dc.subject.keywordsKinaesthetic learning
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodiment and land
dc.subject.keywordsSettler colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsSite-relational
dc.subject.keywordsSite-interactive
dc.subject.keywordsPractice-led research
dc.subject.keywordsArts-based research
dc.subject.keywordsAesthetic ideology
dc.subject.keywordsAnarchives
dc.subject.keywordsTransformative education
dc.subject.keywordsChoreographic technique
dc.titleRevolutionary Forms: Unsettling Dance Through Site-Relational and Transformative Aesthetics
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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