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PhD Artistic Portfolio

a doctoral project on affect and collaborative performance-making

Thesis

This is my complete PhD thesis as submitted on April 12th 2019.

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The experience of affect in collaborative performance-making: an analysis of a dance improviser’s practice.

Research Questions

This research is inspired by the realization that the choreographic process evolves and develops as a result of distinctive affective forces experienced during movement improvisation and articulated through choreographic composition. Improvisation as an occasion of intimate sensory and perceptual experience reveals to the improviser the potential of the choreographic material for future development. What is the relationship between affect and conscious awareness as it takes place in the very moment of improvising? How is this affective experience articulated in collaborative performance-making? How do we articulate in the compositional process the creative forces experienced when improvising with others? What do we sense in the work that we can carry forward into the development of the piece? What is revealed about the practice of improvisation when considered in the context of the concept of affect? What is revealed about affect when investigated through the practice of improvisation? These questions emerged from my desire to continue to expand my understanding of improvisation as both dance artist and scholar. These questions aimed at opening my awareness towards what happens in my creative process.

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