Between the waves

Between The Waves is an examination of empathy through a choreographic creative process, grounded in themes of recovery and resilience, and culminating in a dance work. Looking to the body as a site of embodied memory and personal narrative, the work of this project was to facilitate engagement with these embodied layers of experience, and to draw upon them as a primary source of movement generation. Questions within this research include: what is the choreography of recovery and resilience? How do these processes of recovery live in the body? What capacity does personal narrative have for the potential facilitation of empathy – in process and performance? Can metaphor be used as a tool for movement development, thematic engagement, and/or connection across differences of personal experience? How can/might improvisational movement practice be used as a choreographic tool to draw upon embodied memory (or to facilitate embodiment in a memory space), and cultivate vulnerability and kinesthetic specificity within movement choices and performance? Can such kinesthetic specificity create the potential for empathetic connection, in process and performance?

DOI: https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/10.25820/j6z9-2t44