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Orientador: Kathya Maria Ayres de Godoy / Banca : Karen Astrid Müller Pinto / Banca : Milton Terumitsu Sogabe / Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa é fundamentar como os Princípios da Eutonia e os Fatores do Movimento de Laban se conectam em um processo criativo da dança contemporânea, não visando a conclusão de uma obra artística, mas proporcionando uma reflexão a respeito do processo criativo e da articulação de duas teorias. A pesquisadora/dançarina investiga os Princípios da Eutonia (pele- tato consciente, espaço interno e volume corporal, ossos - transporte, contato consciente e movimento eutônico) e os Fatores do Movimento (peso, espaço, tempo e fluência) e estabelece suas conexões durante o processo criativo da dança. Utiliza o elemento pedra com o intuito de alcançar a simbiose Pedra/Osso, possibilitando o encontro de novas células de movimentos expressivos que são realizadas com o equilíbrio do tônus e com menos desgaste de energia. Para tanto foi adotado a metodologia do estudo de caso: uma investigação das duas teorias em que a pesquisadora vivencia e interpreta os seus movimentos criativos realizados nos laboratórios de dança, definindo quatro momentos de Captura e posteriormente aplicando-os em três colaboradoras para fidedignar o processo criativo da dança em particular. Dessa maneira a pesquisadora justifica a importância do estudo das duas teorias, Princípios da Eutonia e Fatores do Movimento, e das conexões estabelecidas entre elas, para um processo criativo da dança contemporânea como meio de alcançar o movimento qualitativo e expressivo. / Abstract: The purpose of this research is to determine how the Principles of Eutonie and the Laban Movement Factor connect to a creative process of contemporary dance. The focus is not on the artistic work but promotes a reflection on the creative process and in the interaction of the two theories. The researcher/dancer investigates the Principles of Eutonie (skin - consciously touch, internal space and corporal volume, bones - transport, consciously contact and Eutonic movement) and stabilizes its connections during the process of creative dancing. The researcher uses the rock element with the aim to achieve the conjunction of Rock/Bones giving the possibility to meet new cells of expressive movements that are realized with balance of tonus and less use of energy. The case study methodology was used to reach these results: an investigation of the two theories in which the researcher experienced and interpreted the creative movements realized during dance labs, defining four capture moments and applying them to three co-workers to sustain the creative dance in particular. In this way, the researcher justifies the importance to study the two theoriesd: the principles of Eutonie and the movement Factor, and the connection between them for a creative process of contemporary dance as a way to reach the expressive and qualitative movement. / Mestre

Currently, across dance studies, choreographies are usually discussed as representational of the choreographer, with little attention focused on the dancers who also bring the work into being. As well as devaluing the contribution that the dancer makes to the choreographic process, the dancer’s elision from mainstream discourse deprives the art form of a rich source of insight into the incorporating practices of dance. This practice-based research offers a new perspective on choreographic process through the experiential viewpoint of the participating dancer. It involves encounters with contemporary choreographers Rosemary Butcher (UK), John Jasperse (US), Jodi Melnick (US) and Liz Roche (Ire). Utilizing a mixed-mode research structure, it covers the creative process and performance of three solo dance pieces in Dublin in 2008, as well as an especially composed movement treatise, all of which are documented on the attached DVD. The main hypothesis presented is that the dancer possesses a moving identity which is a composite of past dance experience, anatomical structures and conditioned human movement. This is supported by explorations into critical theory on embodiment, including Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of ‘the habitus’. The moving identity is identified as accumulative, altering through encounters with new choreographic movement patterns in independent contemporary dance practice. The interior space of the dancer’s embodied experience is made explicit in chapter 3, through four discussions that outline the dancer’s creative labour in producing each choreographic work. Through adopting a postmodern critical perspective on human subjectivity, supported by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Alain Badiou, among others, the thesis addresses the inherent challenges which face independent contemporary dancers within their multiple embodiments as they move between different choreographic processes. In identifying an emergent paradigmatic shift in the role of dancer within dance- making practices, this research forges a new direction that invites further dancer-led initiatives in practice-based research.

Magister Artium - MA / There is a theoretical gap in scholarship pertaining to masculinity and disability in dance. Existing scholarship on masculinity, disability and dance respectively, seldom bring these three themes into conversation with each other, missing opportunities to examine the nuances of masculinity. Through an ethnographic study, I endeavoured to capture the narratives of three professional disabled male dancers from different contexts and backgrounds. The phenomenological approach was selected in order to enhance understanding of my participants’ experiences in an attempt to illuminate how these dancers negotiate and embody their masculinity in dance spaces. The nuances of masculinity, disability and dance are therefore interpreted through a phenomenological framework and seek to foreground the intricacies of negotiation and subjectivity. Through face-to-face in-depth interviews, watching performances and rehearsals as well as less formal conversations, this project aims to illuminate the lives of Marc Brew (Scotland), David Toole (England) and Zama Sonjica (South Africa) as disabled male dancers. I am particularly interested in disability’s ability to challenge normative ideas around dance, identity and masculinity. I argue the need to change limiting perceptions of hegemonic masculinity and the male dancer’s body to advance the artistic medium of dance and allow for constructive dialogue around issues of access and inclusivity. Furthermore, like Roebuck (2001), I am interested in the ways in which contemporary dance works "contributes to the development of a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which dance articulates masculine identity" (Roebuck, 2001: 1).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-08-05Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:49:06Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cravo_csr_me_ia.pdf: 1366265 bytes, checksum: 22e847ed778c5487b098791c7aec604e (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / A pesquisa proporcionoua crianças do ensino fundamental da rede pública municipal de São Paulo vivências em Dança por meio de um Programa de atividades artísticas que integroua linguagem da Dança coma Música,o Teatroe as Artes Visuais.O programa, denominado “Vivências do Corpo”, buscou sensibilizar as crianças paraa relação delas com seu corpo, como “outro”e como ambiente em que vivem.O objetivo da pesquisa foi analisar como um Programa dedicadoa vivências em Dança no ambiente escolar pode potencializaro processo de interação entre as crianças do ponto de vista da sociabilidade. A idealização desta pesquisa partiu da observação de duas experiências pessoais:a primeira,a maneira desrespeitosa e, por vezes, agressiva de as crianças se relacionarem no ambiente escolar;a segunda, atreladaa um projeto de ação cultural envolvendoa linguagem da Dança, com outra comunidade escolar, que também se encontra inserida em uma infraestrutura urbana sociocultural, que incitaa um contexto de vulnerabilidade. Esse projeto, realizado em uma escola localizada na periferia da zona oeste de São Paulo foi desenvolvido no ano de 2008 pelo Grupo de Pesquisa Dança: Estética Educação (GPDEE) do Instituto de Artes da Unesp,e destacouo escasso contato dessa comunidade coma Arte. O GPDEE deu continuidade ao trabalho nessa comunidade escolar com outro projeto de ação cultural, ao qual esta pesquisa esteve vinculada. Com abordagem qualitativa,a pesquisa apresentou como estratégiao estudo de caso que foi dinamizado coma efetivação do Programaa crianças do terceiro ano da referida escola. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com essas crianças, antese depois da aplicação do Programa, registradas em vídeo,e que serviram como fonte de dados... / The research provided to children from basic education of municipal public school of São Paulo, experiences in dance through a program of artistic activities that integrated the language of the Dance with the Music, Theatre and Visual Arts. The program called “Vivências do Corpo” it was tried to make children aware of their body with others next to them and the environment which they live. The purpose of the research was to analyze how a program can be devoted to experiences in Dance in the school environment can enhance the interaction between the children in the view of sociability. The meaning of this research came from the observation of two personal experiences: the first was the disrespectful and aggressive relationship children to each other in the school environment; the second was linked to a cultural action project involving dance language with other school community, which is also introduced into a socio-cultural urban infrastructure that encourages a context of vulnerability. This project was done in a school located on the West outskirts of São Paulo it was developed in 2008 by the Research Group Dance: Aesthetic Education (GPDEE) of the Art Institute of Unesp and pointed the little contact that community hás with art. The GPDEE continued the work in this school community with another cultural action project to which this research was linked. With a qualitative approach, the research presented as strategy a case study that was dynamized with the program for children of the third year of that school. Semi-structured interviews were made with these children before and after program aplication, recorded by videofilm, which served as a source of data for analysis of this research. As a result it was possible to see the enhance of social relations among children in the act of teaching... (Complete abstract click electronic access below).

This thesis explores somatic practices as a social movement by focusing on the relationship between embodiment, somatics and contemporary dance practices. It looks specifically to Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) and traces an ethnographic history of the practice examining it as a post-modern western somatic method forming part of an international social movement. The research is grounded on post-structuralist dance anthropology and analyses BMC® as a “socially constructed movement system” (Grau 1993). Through experimentation, the somatic movement cultivates bodily awareness and an embodied sense of self. The thesis points to the ways in which the emphasis on embodiment may form a key component in this social movement and its relation to British somatic-informed dance. While providing the conceptual and historic context for experimentation in contemporary dance in Britain since the 70s, the thesis illustrates that New, and later, Independent Dance artists drew from BMC® as well as other somatic practices. It argues that the exploration of embodiment as a human attribute and lived phenomenon from a somatic perspective gave rise to a culturally distinct discourse of practice, known today as somatic-informed dance. It works to illustrate the nature of the new pedagogical approach that emerged and, specifically, the way this aspect of contemporary dance evolved as a result of the emphasis on embodiment and the somatic influence. To do so, the thesis identifies and analyses distinct principles and pedagogic tools employed through an anthropological perspective and ethnographic, historical and practice-led research methods. Further illustrating the way the concept of embodiment is understood in somatic informed dance pedagogy, it critically examines the claim that embodiment processes may re-educate dualist perceptions. It, thereby, argues that it is only in the experience of integration in the lived moment that the problem of dualism might be challenged. Through an investigation of lineage, the thesis situates BMC® and somaticinformed contemporary dance practice within the socio-cultural, artistic, conceptual and philosophical context in which they developed. Pointing to the parallel expansion of scholarly and artistic interest in embodiment over the past five decades, it demonstrates a permeability of bodies, places, ideas and culturally constructed movement systems. Overall, the thesis is underpinned by a critical engagement with the position that embodiment and experience form the existential ground for culture and self (distilled in Csordas’ 1994a), offering an analysis of BMC® informed dance practice as another source of data shedding new light to this insight. Capturing a moment in dance history with a synchronic investigation (Sahlins 1998), this research works to further contribute towards an understanding of a diachronic property of the formation of cultures. In line with Csordas’ position, it suggests that given their distinct approach to experientially gained corporeal knowledge and awareness, the emergence of ‘culturally constructed movement systems’ such as BMC® and somatic informed contemporary dance form a potential illustration of the way culture is existentially grounded on embodiment and experience.

In today´s fast changing global environment, organizations from both private and public sectors are under an increased pressure to continuously change and adapt in order to survive and provide meaningful services and products to their users. Innovation has therefore become an on-going effort that is not only a matter of R&D and product development departments, but rather a responsibility of all employees. To think how products, services, processes, methods and business models can be constantly improved or replaced by new ones is becoming a core competence needed across organization. While many organizations in Sweden have already developed a capability to innovate incrementally through continuous improvements, they often struggle to innovate radically by engaging the talent, knowledge and skills of all employees. In this thesis we thus look at how organizations could enable employees to strengthen their ability to innovate and move from incremental towards more radical innovation. Insights from the practice of contemporary dance groups were used for inspiration, exploring how dancers work in their creative processes and what enables them to move from ideas towards developing a new performance. Since there is very limited literature about the connection between contemporary dance practice and organizational innovation, we tried to build our own framework based on empirical data. In the first study, 20 semi-structures interviews with choreographers from different countries were performed and a model with key phases, tools and enablers of innovation process from choreographic perspective developed. The model was then compared with innovation management theory and empirical data from the industry to identify similarities and differences between the innovation concepts and practice in dance and business.  In the second study the model was tested in practice through participatory action research with 27 participants from different companies and public sector. The study explored how principles and methods from contemporary dance and choreography could be applied to enable innovation in organizational context and what are the effects and limitations of using knowledge from contemporary dance to enable innovation in organizations. The main contribution of the research presented in this thesis is the conceptual framework about innovation process, tools and enablers from a choreographic perspective and a proposed practical method for applying it in organizational context which was developed as a part of the research. Several examples of how practitioners from business and public sector experienced dance-based methods and then translated them into their own working environment to support innovation are presented. / Dagens snabbföränderliga och globala miljö sätter både privata och offentliga organisationer under ökad press att ständigt förändra och anpassa sig för att kunna överleva och erbjuda meningsfulla tjänster och produkter till sina användare. Innovation är därför en pågående insats som inte bara är en fråga för FoU och produktutvecklingsavdelningar, utan är istället ett ansvar för alla anställda. Att tänka på hur produkter, tjänster, processer, metoder och affärsmodeller kan bli bättre eller ersättas med nya, blir en kärnkompetens som behövs i hela organisationen. Samtidigt som många organisationer i Sverige redan utvecklat en förmåga att förnya sig stegvis genom ständiga förbättringar, kämpar de ofta med så kallad radikal innovation där talang, kunskap och kompetens från alla anställda involveras. I den här avhandlingen utforskas hur organisationer kan göra det möjligt för anställda att stärka sin innovationsförmåga, från att vara inkrementellt till att bli mer i enlighet med radikal innovation. Insikter från samtida dansgrupper har använts för inspiration. Vi har studerat hur dansare arbetar i kreativa processer och vad som gör det möjligt för dem att gå från idéer till att utveckla ny föreställning. Eftersom det finns mycket lite litteratur kring sambandet mellan praxis inom samtida dans och innovation i organisationer, har vi sökt att bygga en egen modell utifrån empiriska data. I den första studien genomfördes 20 stycken semi-strukturerade intervjuer med koreografer från olika länder. Utifrån detta utvecklas en modell som innehåller viktiga faser, verktyg och möjliggörare i innovationsprocessen från ett koreografiskt perspektiv. Modellen har sedan jämförts med innovationsledningsteori och empiriska data från industrin för att identifiera likheter och skillnader när det gäller innovationskoncept och praxis, mellan samtida dans och näringslivet. I den andra studien testades modellen i praktiken genom deltagarbaserad forskning med 27 representanter från olika företag och den offentliga sektorn. Studien undersökte hur principer och metoder från samtida dans och koreografi kan tillämpas för att möjliggöra innovation i organisatoriska sammanhang och vilka effekter och begränsningar som finns när det gäller att använda kunskap från samtida dans för att möjliggöra innovation i organisationer. Det viktigaste bidraget till forskning som presenteras i denna avhandling är den konceptuella modellen av innovationsprocessen, verktyg och möjliggörare från ett koreografiskt perspektiv samt förslag på praktisk metod för att tillämpa den i organisatoriska sammanhang som har utvecklats som en del av forskningen. Flera exempel presenteras på hur verksamma i näringslivet och offentlig sektor upplevt dansbaserade metoder och sedan översatt dem till sin egen arbetsmiljö för att stödja innovation.

O presente estudo busca compreender a poética do bailaor e coreógrafo espanhol Israel Galván (Sevilla, 1973) e sua importância nas transformações pelas quais a dança flamenca tem passado nas últimas décadas. A etnografia foi o método de pesquisa utilizado, tendo como instrumentos de coleta de dados a observação participante, entrevistas, análise de material audiovisual e fotográfico. A partir do exame desse material, e com ênfase na análise do vídeo de estreia do espetáculo ¡Mira! Los zapatos rojos, de 1998, identificam-se características presentes na citada obra, as quais foram desenvolvidas pelo artista ao longo de sua carreira. Entre as singularidades que emergiram dessa investigação podemos elencar: a presença de elementos autobiográficos; o corpo como centro da pesquisa; a ruptura da estrutura coreográfica do flamenco e a introdução de conceitos da dança e da arte contemporâneas. Galván desenvolveu uma linguagem única e, com suas inovações, enriqueceu o repertório do flamenco com novos movimentos e conceitos. É considerado um dos maiores revolucionários dessa dança. / This inquiry aims to comprehend the poetics of Spanish bailaor and choreographer Israel Galván (born in Sevilla, 1973) and its significance in the context of the transformations flamenco dance underwent for the last few decades. In the present work, ethnography is the elected method of research; accordingly, data gathering was carried out by means of participant observation, interviews, and the analysis of both audiovisual and photographic records. By going over the data –with analytic emphasis on the footage material from the opening night of ¡Mira! Los zapatos rojos, performed on stage in 1998– it is possible to isolate certain features of this particular work by Galván which were being cultivated by the artist throughout his career. From this investigation, the following can be singled out: the salience of subjectivity; the body, construed as the choreographic research’s very core; the artist’s own breaking free from flamenco’s choreographic structure, and, by doing so, his inception of concepts borrowed from contemporary dance and arts. Galván has developed a unique language and, with his innovations, has invigorated flamenco’s repertoire with new movements and ideas. For all these reasons, he stands as one of the most revolutionary choreographers in the genre.

The goal of the paper is to develop a framework in which to ground the analysis of the aesthetics of Western concert dance, particularly contemporary concert dance, in order to help dancers, choreographers, critics, and the general dance audience understand and discuss dance from the perspective of a common intellectual ground. Examined are the relationship between epochs in concert dance and the corresponding aesthetic theories and the elements that differentiate and unify contemporary concert dance from other Western concert dance, including the unique spatiotemporal nature of dance and the simultaneous presentation of universal human-ness and individual truth via the kinesthetic empathy of viewer and dancer. A brief explanation of phenomenology and of its parallels to the consciousness required of dancer, choreographer and viewer supports a phenomenological approach to a theory of Western contemporary concert dance as most relevant at this time.