Objects, Homes and The Body as “Museum”
How do you create an “inventory” of the body?
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“dance’s overt choreography and conventionalisation of the body has allowed it to serve as a performative reflection on social choreography in the broader sense…if the body I dance with and the body I work and walk with are one and the same, I must, when dancing, necessarily entertain the suspicion that all of the body’s movement, are, to greater or lesser extent, choreographed” Hewiit, 2005, p14
| My current research interest lie in exploring a movement vocabulary that is based in action, and function. Currently the action derives from the laying out, sorting and placing of objects onto the floor: a “museum” in the moment; a pattern out of disorder / vice versa. Movement material is generated to explore the concept of the body as a museum – a collection of actions and gestures taken from any one moment or experience. The choreographer thus becomes a “curator” of the movement within the body. I am also interested in creating satellite groups of participants who engage in the process through workshops etc – making the process, or part of the process, community based. The final “event” may be a museum, and exhibition to the work of art that was created over a period of time by many people in different place |
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