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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
Lisa Spackman
Laura Gibson and Hannah Birch
This proposed RiT project aims to map how reflective and collaborative practice can enhance choreographic consciousness and ultimately artistic practice. The project has two parts. The first is the creation of a reflective and retrospective virtual 'creative journal' and is a written process; the second is a practice-led series of workshops linking with colleagues from across the division/ faculty and external practitioners.
This reflection process will aim to critically analyse the creative process from both an individual and collaborative perspective with foci on the generation of meaning in dance, in conjunction with our employed choreographic methodology. This is a retrospective that maps different stages of the creative process. Research issues in dance; such as ‘locating’ the choreographic starting point, choreographic methodology and authorial intention within a collaborative working model have surfaced as important points of discussion (and interest), for the team working together.
This retrospective ‘map’ will be in the form of a series of writings that will become a virtual ‘creative journal’. It will include choreographic source materials, process documentation, essays on themes that have arisen form doing and connections with artistic practice and philosophical debate more broadly.
This virtual notebook will be able to be disseminated in part or whole through different internal forums at the University (such as ELGG and the ReCreatEd E-Network) and will provide a springboard from which to frame performance practice either for internal or external research symposia or public performance. It will also be a starting point for the team, as practitioners to emerge into a wider context of academic publication or knowledge dissemination.
The second part of this project aims to develop the practice in itself, by finding further points of input from specialists across other disciplines. This would be in particular relating to deign (either it terms of costume or theatrical environment) and the use of spoken text.
This stage would involve a series of choreographic ‘laboratories’ (utilising existing dance material) that would invite comment (and an opportunity for workshop experimentation /discussion), from colleagues across other artistic disciplines at the University. This might be, for example from within the division (such as Theatre) or across the faculty more broadly - teaming up for example with Art and Design (fashion). This could extend to the facilitation of a workshop by an external practitioner or expert.
The overall aim of the project would be to look at how reflective and collaborative practice can enhance choreographic consciousness and ultimately artistic practice.
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