- Title: Subtitle
- Between the waves
- Creators
- Jessica Madden
- Contributors
- Rebekah Kowal (Advisor)Jennifer Kayle (Committee Member)Kristin Marrs (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Dance
- Date degree season
- Spring 2021
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.006054
- Number of pages
- v, 30 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2021 Jessica Madden
- Language
- English
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-30).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
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
- Academic Unit
- Dance
- Record Identifier
- 9984097364802771
Thesis
Between the waves
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2021
DOI: 10.17077/etd.006054
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