Moving together: dance as an inroad to relationship and self-discovery

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Title Moving together: dance as an inroad to relationship and self-discovery
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Fine Arts
Department Dance, Modern
Author Fifer, Emily Scott
Date 2009-12-14
Description This thesis investigates how identity is shaped by our relationships with other people. It examines how identity "disappears" when we lose meaningful connections to the outside world. I discuss how dance, and specifically Contact Improvisation, brings us into deeper relationship with ourselves and others through its collaborative nature and unique embodied perspective. In this research, I include personal movement experiences that have illuminated my own identity as a human being and dance artist. Finally, I address how my understanding of relationship has informed and transformed my identity as a performer, choreographer, and teacher.
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Publisher University of Utah
Subject Dance--Psychological aspects; Contact improvisation
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MFA
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Moving together: dance as an inroad to relationship and self-discovery" J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections GV8.5 2010 .F54
Rights Management ©Emily Scott Fifer. To comply with copyright, the file for this work may be restricted to The University of Utah campus libraries pending author permission.
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