Surfacing: finding an individual voice by living the honest language of the dance

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Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Fine Arts
Department Dance, Modern
Author Vance, Shannon Noelle
Title Surfacing: finding an individual voice by living the honest language of the dance
Date 2010-08
Description This thesis navigates my journey as a dance artist, transcending movement creation in search of an individual voice through the practice of honest dance language. I believe a present and open dialogue with the body/mind, facilitates honest dance language and thus, discovery of the individual voice. Inspired by Martin Heidegger's Origin of a Work of Art, Deborah Hay's My Body the Buddhist, and reflections upon "Spin Cycle," my graduate thesis piece, my research integrates honesty as a creative approach in the dance making process. I define honesty in dance making as the ability to access internal movement language as it surfaces and presents itself through exploration. In the context; of my research I look at honesty not as value to strive for in a work of art but as an avenue for illuminating individual voice in the creative process. Individuality and honesty are important values in my research because I believe they foster self-trust in artistic development.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Choreography; Creative impulse; Creative process; Honesty; Individual voice; Movement language
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Fine Arts
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Shannon Noelle Vance 2010
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 123,993 bytes
Source original in Marriott Library Special Collections ; GV8.5 2010 .V36
ARK ark:/87278/s68w3v1w
Setname ir_etd
ID 194354
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68w3v1w
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