PhD Projects
Learning from each other in dance
In the project wondering is turned to experience of encounters in dance practices and in what ways they can find formats enabling learning from each other. What choreographic practice needs to be activated, for knowing while dancing, to be perceived in ways that contributes to the wisdom of today.
Project discription
Aim and research questions
The aim of the research is to examine approaches to specific knowledge in dance, conceptions, preconceptions and interpretation rights that risk rendering certain knowledge invisible. Through the situating of dance in practice, look for how it is possible to experience, articulate and review its epistemologies.
Questions in process:
How can one learn from each other (every other) in dance?
What choreographic practices need to be activated for specific bodily knowledge in dance to be examined and learn from each other?
What is required in practice, to open spaces for dance and specific bodily knowledge that are not accessible with the wisdom of today?
How can ideas of tolerance and openness be examined in practice?
Research implementation and anticipated impact
The research is done through encounters in dance with an interest in the knowledge that arise in practice. Some burning themes are how different experiences can be an asset, questions about how bodies are created in relationships in dance where difference in practice is highlighted as an alternative to notions of diversity. Based on my practice in folk dance, it is possible to address notions and concepts in the friction between art and culture. Through experiences from cultural contexts of social dance as collective knowledge, questions are raised about the action of inviting, the place of encounters, agency and activity, experiential knowledge and ethical meanings of meeting in dance.
Principal Supervisor
Martin Sonderkamp
Supervisor
Amanda Piña
Schedule
2023-2028
