Sellers-Young, BarbaraOsborn, Jonathan Mark2019-11-222019-11-222019-052019-11-22http://hdl.handle.net/10315/36674BETWEEN SPECIES: CHOREOGRAPHING HUMAN AND NONHUMAN BODIES is a dissertation project informed by practice-led and practice-based modes of engagement, which approaches the space of the zoo as a multi-species, choreographic, affective assemblage. Drawing from critical scholarship in dance literature, zoo studies, human-animal studies, posthuman philosophy, and experiential/somatic field studies, this work utilizes choreographic engagement, with the topography and inhabitants of the Toronto Zoo and the Berlin Zoologischer Garten, to investigate the potential for kinaesthetic exchanges between human and nonhuman subjects. In tracing these exchanges, BETWEEN SPECIES documents the creation of the zoomorphic choreographic works ARK and ARCHE and creatively mediates on: more-than-human choreography; the curatorial paradigms, embodied practices, and forms of zoological gardens; the staging of human and nonhuman bodies and bodies of knowledge; the resonances and dissonances between ethological research and dance ethnography; and, the anthropocentric constitution of the field of dance studies.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Environmental studiesElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2019-11-22ZoosDanceChoreographyResearch-as-creationPractice-led researchPractice-based researchAutoethnographyZoo studiesAnimal studiesWalking as methodologyDance ethnographyZoomorphismDance studiesHuman-animal relationsAnimal choreographyPosthumanismMulti-species relationsImmersionUmweltKinaesthetic relationsSpeculative fictionToronto ZooBerlin Zoologischer GartenEthologyBecoming-animalStaging national identityZoo design