Dancing toward humanity: accessing embodiment in artifice within the choreographic and performative processes

This thesis research investigates the role of actualized embodiment in the choreographic creative process in order to articulate and access visceral, raw, poetic essences of humanity inside performance. How does one find honesty inside of an experience that is crafted with artifice, or, actualization within representation? Through the research conducted inside my personal choreographic processes for the solo Slough and my thesis work States of Flesh, this thesis will investigate how vulnerability, empathy and specificity of experience can become pathways toward actualizing embodiment within artifice.