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100 1 Curtis, Jess Alan
245 10 Knowing Bodies / Bodies of Knowledge: Eight Experimental
Practitioners of Contemporary Dance
300 383 p
500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-
08(E), Section: A
500 Advisers: Lynette Hunter; Joe Dumit
502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2015
520 This dissertation addresses the concept of the
experimental in contemporary dance and performance. In it
I argue that, although the word is used in very different
ways in traditional artistic and scientific practices, a
number of contemporary dance artists utilize experimental
practices in their work that produce useful knowledge that
is recognizable and transmittable beyond the walls of the
theater or gallery. I have written about artists whose
embodied work has been described as experimental, whose
innovations and explorations have produced paradigmatic
shifts in dance practice and new ways of knowing, both
about and through bodies
520 Using theories of embodied experience from performance
studies, dance studies, phenomenology and enactive
perception, I argue for shifting our attention beyond
textual and visual models of understanding performance to
a broader palette of sensory modes and ways that attendees
and makers both enact them. I propose that by doing so we
broaden the possibilities for understanding the effects of
performance and gain much richer tools for creating, using
and analyzing our experiences of performance. I make these
arguments as a maker of performance and as one who attends,
reads and writes about performances
520 The final chapter is a reflection in language of my own
experimental performance project Performance Research
Experiment #2 which was/is a Practice-as-Research
performance project that engaged and embodied ideas and
practices of scientific experimentation to specifically
explore ways that artistic practice and scientific
practice may inform or interrupt each other. By extension
the project tried to think, and move, through different
ways that we know what we know
590 School code: 0029
650 4 Performing arts
650 4 Philosophy
650 4 African American studies
690 0641
690 0422
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710 2 University of California, Davis.|bPerformance Studies
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