Working with Physical Exposure in Contemporary Outdoor Dance
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v3i1.8458Keywords:
Dance in outdoor spaces, materiality, practice-as-research, site-specific, Amerta MovementAbstract
This article introduces four strategies of working with physical exposure in contemporary outdoor dance. It combines movement practice informed by Amerta Movement with New Materialist thought and primarily draws on the author’s doctoral practice-as-research Dancing Materiality (2015). It principally suggests that engaging with the material multitude of the world at large through physical exposure can allow movers to notice and draw on material agency and intermaterial confederations in processes of dance making. It further suggests that experiencing materiality as lively and agentic bears the potential to impact how we position ourselves in this world more generally and could affect human activity beyond the specific territory of contemporary (outdoor) dance.
Downloads
References
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT COMMUNITY. About Authentic Movement, n.d. Available at: http://www.authenticmovementcommunity.org/about. Accessed on: 22 Apr. 2015.
BENNETT, JANE: Powers of the Hoard: Further Notes on Material Agency. In COHEN, Jeffrey Jerome (Ed.). Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects. Washington, DC: Oliphaunt Books, 2012, p. 237-269.
BENNETT, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010.
BLOOM, Katya, GALANTER, Margit, and REEVE, Sandra (eds.). Embodied Lives. Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement. Axminster: Triarchy Press, 2014.
HARMAN, Graham. Strange Realism: On Behalf of Objects. The Humanities Review v. 12, n. 1, p. 3-18, 2015
HAY, Deborah. My Body, the Buddhist. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2000
HEIDEGGER, Martin. Building Dwelling Thinking. In HEIDEGGER, Martin. (Ed) Poetry, Language, Thought. New York: Harper and Row, 1971, p. 145-161.
INGOLD, Tim. Making: Archaeology, Anthropology, Art and Architecture. London: Routledge, 2013.
INGOLD, Tim. Thinking through Making. Video of a lecture given at Tales from the North, Conference at the Institute for Northern Culture in Lapland, 12. April 2012. Available at: http://syntheticzero.net/2014/03/12/tim-ingold-on-thinking-through-making/. Accessed on: 05. Sept. 2014.
INGOLD, Tim. Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. London: Routledge, 2011
INGOLD, Tim. Epilogue: Towards a Politics of Dwelling. Conservation and Society v. 3, n. 2, p. 501-508, 2005.
INGOLD, Tim. The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London: Routledge, 2000
JOY, EILEEN. You Are Here: A Manifesto. In COHEN, Jeffrey Jerome (Ed.). Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects. Washington, DC: Oliphaunt Books, 2012, p. 153-172.
KLEIN, Susan and MAHLER, Barbara. ‘Klein Technique’, version adapted by Mahler in 2008. New York: Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler School of Dance and Movement Studies, 2001. Available at: https://barbaramahler.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/barbaramahler.pdf. Accessed on: 01 May 2015.
KRAMER, Paula. Dancing Materiality: A Study of Agency and Confederations in Contemporary Outdoor Dance Practices. 2015. 232 p. Thesis (PhD, Dance). Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, Coventry, 2015.
KRAMER, Paula. Bodies, Rivers, Rocks and Trees: Meeting Agentic Materiality in Contemporary Outdoor Movement Practices. Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts v. 17, n. 4, p. 83-91, 2012a
KRAMER, Paula. Dancing in Nature Space - Attending to Materials. In RAVN, Susanne and ROUHIAINEN, Leena (Eds.). Dance Spaces. Practices of Movement. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2012b, p. 161-174.
KRAMER, Paula. Of Not Getting Lost: Making use of Materials. Auditory Perspectives, E-Journal on Visual and Art History n. 2, p. 1-7, 2011. Available at: http://www.kunsttexte.de/index.php?id=907&L=1. Accessed on: 25 Aug. 2011.
MAINZ, Bettina. Part 1, Body of Becoming and Progressing into no-Progress. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices v. 3 n. 1+2, p. 145-147, 2011.
NOVACK, Cynthia Jane. Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
Ravn, Susanne. Sensing Movement, Living Spaces: An Investigation of Movement Based on the Lived Experience of 13 Professional Dancers. Saarbrücken: VDM, 2009.
REEVE, Sandra. Reading, Gardening and ‘Non-Self’: Joged Amerta and its Emerging Influence on Ecological Somatic Practice. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices v. 2, n. 2, p. 189-203, 2010.
SCHOOL FOR BODY-MIND CENTERING: About BMC, 2014. Available at: http://www.bodymindcentering.com/about. Accessed on: 19 Apr. 2015.
WHITEHEAD, Simon and BUCKWALTER, Melinda. Simon Whitehead in Conversation with Melinda Buckwalter, 2009. Available at: http://www.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=610. Accessed on: 04 May 2015.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2016 Paula Kramer
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License.
Authors retain copyright, while licensing their work under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License.
English
Português (Brasil)
