Essays about: "Dance performativity"
Found 4 essays containing the words Dance performativity.
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1. Dancing in Postcolonial Spotlights The possibility to perceive postcolonial structures within the dance scenes in India Song and Beau Travail
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperAbstract : This thesis studies the complex relationship between the concept of art cinema, dance performativity and postcolonial theories, with two dance scenes from India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975) and Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) as a point of departure. The method is to do a close reading, through the theoretical scopes by among others David Bordwell, Patrice Pavis and Richard Dyer. READ MORE
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2. Girl Get Dressed/Ready to Wear : Designing activities of getting dressed
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomiAbstract : This body of work operates at the border between fashion and performance, with the intention to explore the performativity of body, inrelation to forms of dress. The work presented in this thesis sets out to examine the ways the performed act of making may inform theoutcome through designing new activities of getting dressed as producers for dress, while questioning the static systems of makingdress that develops form mainly with an approximation of a bodily form. READ MORE
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3. I speak, I lie, I admit
University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för dansAbstract : This essay accompanies Hokuto Kodama’s choreographic work Untitled (I speak, I lie, I admit), following its creation process. Through investigating the process of subjectivation of dancers using the theory of Michel Foucault, the essay questions the conventional tendency to ignore the relationship between linguistic activity and choreographed dance. READ MORE
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4. Dancing for your Self Exploring the theories of Gender Trouble by Judith Butler through homemade dance videos on YouTube
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesignAbstract : In my essay I explore the theories on performativity by Judith Butler and her book Gender Trouble and apply her theories from the early nineties on today’s Web 2.0 and YouTube. READ MORE