Thesis
Space cadet: a methodological approach and choreographic experiment
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2021
DOI: 10.17077/etd.006114
Abstract
"Space Cadet" investigates black and Asian women's slippery presence in performance through collaboratively devised solos. I am interested in the (in)visibility of lived experience and am curious about the residues of subjugation and erasure in the body. Through this process, I am working to activate a methodology of kinetic imagination that might serve in re-orienting marginalized and oppressed bodies towards new possible futures: I am seeking to activate the body as a living and reflexive archive and a futuring medium. How might we consciously and strategically tap into our kinesthetically stored and sensation-based memories and present realities and invite them to be generative in our making? How might we support each other in a practice of re-visioning, orienting the knowledge stored within our bodies toward futures that serve ours and our communities' greatest good? In this process, I will employ black performance technologies from dance, music, and theater traditions, exploring the space these make for embodied knowledge – what viscerally felt and experience - to act as a primary source. Considering the institution of academia's history of disavowal of black performance traditions and technologies, and the reality that this work will be created and produced within that same container, I intervene to ask the question: how might I return to the centrality of the body and its community as a site of knowledge, situating theory as a means to affirm and name practice.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Space cadet: a methodological approach and choreographic experiment
- Creators
- Laila J Franklin
- Contributors
- Jennifer Kayle (Advisor)Melinda J Myers (Committee Member)Stephanie Miracle (Committee Member)T.J. Dedeaux-Norris (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Dance
- Date degree season
- Spring 2021
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.006114
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- x, 31 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2021 Laila J Franklin
- Language
- English
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 28-29).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
Space Cadet investigates black and Asian women's slippery presence in performance through collaboratively devised solos. I am interested in the (in)visibility of lived experience and am curious about the residues of subjugation and erasure in the body. Through this process, I am working to activate a methodology of kinetic imagination that might serve in re-orienting marginalized and oppressed bodies towards new possible futures: I am seeking to activate the body as a living and reflexive archive and a futuring medium. How might we consciously and strategically tap into our kinesthetically stored and sensation-based memories and present realities and invite them to be generative in our making? How might we support each other in a practice of re-visioning, orienting the knowledge stored within our bodies toward futures that serve ours and our communities' greatest good? In this process, I employed black performance technologies from dance, music, and theater traditions, exploring the space these make for embodied knowledge – what viscerally felt and experienced - to act as a primary source.
- Academic Unit
- Dance
- Record Identifier
- 9984097275602771
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