| dc.description.abstract | Moving through Matter is a performative exploration of what becomes moving and a moving body through dancing with paper and fabric as intra-active phenomena. The study is challenging dance as a discipline and questions the position of the physically trained dancer, calling for a de-centring of the human body as the one that ‘can’ dance. Through the theoretical frameworks of agential realism and affect theory, understood through Karen Barad and Brian Massumi, it asks for an intra-active, performative and affective approach to moving. How moving is always already becoming through the specific entanglements and affective intensities of the intra-active phenomena. It is a hopeful study, one that dwells in the unknown and argues for a materialisation that never sits still, but becomes continuously reconfigured and different. The artistic research works through a performative research paradigm and is explored through improvisation and propositions. As well, influenced by the Japanese art form, Butoh, with a special focus on total presence and moving through movement images. Through a diffractive analysis of four stop mo(ve)ments it makes an effort to open the potentialities and possibilities of moving, elaborating on what comes to matter and how this makes a difference to our experience of moving. | |
