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Thesis Info

LABS ID
00530
Thesis Title
Points de vue
Author
Yves Candau
2nd Author
3rd Author
Degree
Master of Fine Arts
Year
2015
Number of Pages
48
University
Simon Fraser University
Thesis Supervisor
Arne Eigenfeldt
Supervisor e-mail
arne_e AT sfu.ca
Other Supervisor(s)
Martin Gotfrit, Rob Kitsos, Henry Daniel
Language(s) of Thesis
English
Department / Discipline
School for the Contemporary Arts
Languages Familiar to Author
French, English
URL where full thesis can be found
summit.sfu.ca/item/15900
Keywords
postmodern dance, improvisation, somatic techniques, embodied cognition, research-creation
Abstract: 200-500 words
Points de vue is an interdisciplinary performance integrating solo dance improvisation with contextual and processual information about the activity which is unfolding. The center of this research-creation project is a question: What happens when I improvise? Investigating the question reveals a deep synergy between multiple and complementary modes of inquiry: theoretical reflections, stimulating the development of methodologies, enacted through practices over extended periods of time. These are co-dependent processes, mutually enriching each other through recursive and iterative cycles of inquiry. Improvisation is contextualized through phenomenological accounts, contemporary ideas from the embodied cognition paradigm, and an examination of somatic techniques. The practice is then articulated in the performance through a multiplicity of appearances: experienced through sight, sound, kinaesthetic empathy, words and concepts. Far from contradictory, these multiple points of view contribute to a kind of experiential synesthesia, leading to a richer appreciation of the phenomenon as a whole.