Esta tese se ocupa em discutir o status da coreografia nos Cursos de Graduação em Dança do Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brasil. Buscou-se compreender o contexto dos referidos cursos por intermédio de observação de aulas e entrevistas com os professores que trabalham com procedimentos coreográficos em seus processos de Ensino. Problematizam-se as práticas de criação de movimentos e de composição coreográfica e de recriação de repertórios de dança já existentes. Descreve-se o modo como professores e alunos empenham esforços para colocar suas produções à apreciação do público em apresentações diversas. Apresentam-se os Projetos de Extensão, coordenados pelos professores estudados, cujos objetivos têm relação com práticas coreográficas distintas. Discute-se a coreografia como procedimento de Ensino e como recurso pedagógico. Os Projetos de Extensão são apresentados e descritos como dispositivos de visibilidade da dança que propiciam tempo e espaço para o desenvolvimento de um refinamento estético na criação em dança. Compreende-se que o empenho para criar, produzir e apresentar as coreografias feitas nos Cursos de Graduação em Dança do RS circunscreve-se como prática de formação em dança. / This thesis is concerned to discuss the status of choreography in the Undergraduate Dance Courses in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) - Brazil. The research focused on understanding the context of these courses, by observing classes and interviewing professors who work with choreographic procedures in their teaching processes. Practices of Movement creation, choreographic composition and recreation of existing dance repertoires were problematized. It is described how teachers and students engage efforts to put their productions to appreciation in diverse presentations. The thesis also presents the extension projects, coordinated by the studied teachers, whose objectives are related to various choreographic practices. Choreography is discussed as a teaching procedure and as a pedagogic resource. The extension projects are presented and described as a device of visibility in dance that offers time and space for developing aesthetic refinement in dance creation. It can be understood that the effort to create, produce and present choreographies made in the RS Undergraduate Dance Courses is applied as a practice in dance formation.

El 14 de agosto de 1985, durante el largo conflicto armado interno entre la guerrilla maoísta de Sendero Luminoso - SL y el Estado peruano, una patrulla del Ejército entró en el pueblo andino de Accomarca, ubicado en la región de Ayacucho, y asesinó a 69 personas indígenas, incluyendo niños y ancianos, supuestos simpatizantes del grupo insurgente. La mayoría de los sobrevivientes y familiares de las víctimas se desplazaron a Lima y se integraron en una organización de víctimas y en la Asociación Hijos del Distrito de Accomarca - AHIDA. Desde el año 2011, con motivo de la extradición desde los Estados Unidos del mayor Telmo Hurtado, principal responsable de la masacre, la AHIDA ha recreado la dolorosa experiencia de la matanza a través de una performance anual del carnaval ayacuchano, incorporando coreografías y canciones testimoniales para exigir la justicia para las víctimas de la masacre. Esta performance carnavalesca integra a los niños y jóvenes que no vivieron la masacre, pero imaginan, interpretan y crean su propia memoria mediante la comunicación con los sobrevivientes y la participación en la producción cultural del evento.En este artículo expongo cómo los sobrevivientes y familiares de las víctimas recuerdan la masacre y transmiten sus memorias a sus hijos a través de una actuación carnavalesca. Describo la producción deuna memoria intergeneracional a través de la transmisión intergeneracional, que se construye en el espacio doméstico (familia), el espacio comunal/institucional (AHIDA), y el espacio público (carnaval). Sin duda, la ocasión del carnaval es un espacio de gran alcance para la producción de otras formas de memoria, y para la demanda de la justicia a través de una coreografía participativa y performance musical. / On August 14, 1985, during the long internal armed conflict between the Maoist guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso and the Peruvian state, an army patrol entered the Andean town Accomarca, located in the Ayacucho region, and killed 69 indigenous people, including children and elderly, alleged supporters of the insurgent group. The majority of survivors and relatives of victims were displaced to Lima and integrated into the victims’ organization and the Asociación Hijos del Distrito de Accomarca - AHIDA. Since 2011, on the occasion of the extradition from the United States of Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado, main person responsible of the massacre, the AHIDA has recreated the painful experience of the massacre through an annual Ayacuchan Carnival performance incor- porating choreography and testimonial songs to demand justice for the victims of the massacre. In addition, this carnivalesque performance involves children and young people who did not lived the massacre, but imagine, interpret and create their own memory by communicating with the survivors and participating in the cultural production of the event. In this article, I expose how survivors and relatives of victims remember the massacre and transmit their memories to their children through a carnivalesque performance. I describe the production of an intergenerational memory through the intergenerational transmission, which is constructed in the domestic space (family), the communal/institutional space (AHIDA), and the public space (Carnival). Surely, the occasion of the Carnival is a powerful spacefor the production of other forms of memory, and for the demand for justice through participatory choreographic and musical performance.

abstract: MOVE was a choreographic project that investigated content in conjunction with the creative process. The yearlong collaborative creative process utilized improvisational and compositional experiments to research the movement potential of the human body, as well as movement's ability to be an emotional catalyst. Multiple showings were held to receive feedback from a variety of viewers. Production elements were designed in conjunction with the development of the evening-length dance work. As a result of discussion and research, several process-revealing sections were created to provide clear relationships between pedestrian/daily functional movement and technical movement. Each section within MOVE addressed movement as an emotional catalyst, resulting in a variety of emotional textures. The sections were placed in a non-linear structure in order for the audience to have the space to create their own connections between concepts. Community was developed in rehearsal via touch/weight sharing, and translated to the performance of MOVE via a communal, instinctive approach to the performance of the work. Community was also created between the movers and the audience via the design of the performance space. The production elements all revolved around the human body, and offered different viewpoints into various body parts. The choreographer, designers, and movers all participated in the creation of the production elements, resulting in a clear understanding of MOVE by the entire community involved. The overall creation, presentation, and reflection of MOVE was a view into the choreographer's growth as a dance artist, and her values of people and movement. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.F.A. Dance 2013

Esta tese se ocupa em discutir o status da coreografia nos Cursos de Graduação em Dança do Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brasil. Buscou-se compreender o contexto dos referidos cursos por intermédio de observação de aulas e entrevistas com os professores que trabalham com procedimentos coreográficos em seus processos de Ensino. Problematizam-se as práticas de criação de movimentos e de composição coreográfica e de recriação de repertórios de dança já existentes. Descreve-se o modo como professores e alunos empenham esforços para colocar suas produções à apreciação do público em apresentações diversas. Apresentam-se os Projetos de Extensão, coordenados pelos professores estudados, cujos objetivos têm relação com práticas coreográficas distintas. Discute-se a coreografia como procedimento de Ensino e como recurso pedagógico. Os Projetos de Extensão são apresentados e descritos como dispositivos de visibilidade da dança que propiciam tempo e espaço para o desenvolvimento de um refinamento estético na criação em dança. Compreende-se que o empenho para criar, produzir e apresentar as coreografias feitas nos Cursos de Graduação em Dança do RS circunscreve-se como prática de formação em dança. / This thesis is concerned to discuss the status of choreography in the Undergraduate Dance Courses in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) - Brazil. The research focused on understanding the context of these courses, by observing classes and interviewing professors who work with choreographic procedures in their teaching processes. Practices of Movement creation, choreographic composition and recreation of existing dance repertoires were problematized. It is described how teachers and students engage efforts to put their productions to appreciation in diverse presentations. The thesis also presents the extension projects, coordinated by the studied teachers, whose objectives are related to various choreographic practices. Choreography is discussed as a teaching procedure and as a pedagogic resource. The extension projects are presented and described as a device of visibility in dance that offers time and space for developing aesthetic refinement in dance creation. It can be understood that the effort to create, produce and present choreographies made in the RS Undergraduate Dance Courses is applied as a practice in dance formation.

Orientador: Antonieta Marília de Oswald de Andrade / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T16:46:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alvarez_RegiaBarbosa_M.pdf: 2483995 bytes, checksum: ffb8f4e57008bdcba8d9883a8902cf85 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Esta dissertação de mestrado vincula o Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Unidos de Vila Isabel com as vivências particulares da autora com o ritmo do samba. Devido à imensidão de figuras que compõem o universo do samba-enredo, o presente estudo estipulou descrever o documentário Nossa Escola de Samba, que trata do desfile da Vila Isabel em 1965, em seguida, o desfile que deu a vitória ao Grêmio em 1988 e o da segunda vitória em 2006. Deste modo, foram estabelecidos os quatro momentos do samba que influenciaram as minhas pesquisas, sendo os três primeiros tempos do meu samba os respectivos desfiles que escolhi para analisar e o último tempo são as minhas pesquisas pessoais e profissionais com a dança do samba, que resultam em um produto coreográfico inspirado em todo o material analisado. A metodologia escolhida foi a descrição coreográfica com base nos estudos coreológicos de Preston-Dunlop e, os instrumentos utilizados foram a pesquisa de campo, a coleta de material bibliográfico e audiovisual, finalizado por laboratórios coreográficos. Os resultados foram três solos: "Miudinho", inspirado nos sambas tradicionais; "Passista", um reavivamento dos momentos em que frequentava quadras de escolas de samba; e por fim "Meu samba em quatro tempos" um somatório das metamorfoses que meu corpo recebeu das vivências em dança / Abstract: This master's thesis links the Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Unidos de Vila Isabel with the author's particular experiences with the rhythm of the samba. Due to the multitude of images that comprise the universe of samba plot, this study set to describe the documentary "Nossa escola de Samba", which deals with the parade of Vila Isabel in 1965, then the parade which gave the victory to the guild in 1988 and the second victory in 2006. Thus were established the four stages of the samba that influenced the author's research. The first three times that were chosen to look were my samba parades and the last time, was my personal and professional research with samba's dance, which result in a product based on the choreographic material analyzed. The methodology chosen was the choreography description based on choreological studies of Preston-Dunlop, the instruments used were the field research, collection of literature and audiovisual material, and finally, choreographic laboratories. The results were three soils: "Miudinho," based on the traditional samba; "Passista," a revival of the moments when I used to go to blocks of samba's schools, and finally "Meu samba em quatro tempos" a sun of metamorphosis, that my body received with experiences in dance / Mestrado / Artes Cenicas / Mestre em Artes

Orientador: Graziela Estela Fonseca Rodrigues / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T16:26:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Melchert_AnaCarolinaLopes_M.pdf: 12507812 bytes, checksum: 0c88654f7f09f37cc079b91df7a6a145 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Este trabalho teve por objetivo realizar uma criação artística, tendo como foco o eixo Estruturação da Personagem do Método Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete (BPI). Pretendeu-se, também, a realização de uma reflexão teórica do desenvolvimento deste processo criativo. O BPI é um Método de perspectiva sistêmica, que integra aspectos sociais, culturais, emocionais e físicos, cujo foco é a identidade do corpo. Este Método possui três eixos inter-relacionados e indissociáveis: O Inventário no Corpo, O Co-habitar com a Fonte e a Estruturação da Personagem. A personagem no BPI é trabalhada como uma possibilidade de desenvolvimento da Imagem Corporal e como um processo de nucleação, possibilitando o fechamento de uma gestalt. O Co-habitar com a Fonte foi realizado na região do Vale do Paraíba (SP), onde se efetivou pesquisas de campo sobre a manifestação popular brasileira do jongo. A partir do co-habitar, realizou-se um aprofundamento do Inventário no Corpo, o que possibilitou a abertura do processo criativo. A presente pesquisa descreve as várias etapas de como se estruturou a personagem, que são apresentadas e descritas através de agrupamentos por conteúdos e dinâmicas específicas de trabalho. As incorporações de objetos são descritas como necessidades de se conquistar a expressão do corpo. As individualizações das ações de campo e o aprofundamento do Inventário no Corpo conduziram à etapa da Incorporação da Personagem. A pesquisa de campo complementar, as referências literárias, a experimentação de objetos e as elaborações cênicas possibilitaram o desenvolvimento da Estruturação da Personagem. O nome da personagem é apresentado como uma perspectiva de possibilitar ao intérprete o desenvolvimento de seu processo. A Estruturação da Personagem foi realizada a partir da efetivação do Método do BPI, onde o corpo em desenvolvimento aprofundou o contato com suas origens, co-habitou com outros corpos e integrou os conteúdos vivenciados dando passagem a uma personagem, possibilitando a este realizar uma dança original, integrada e orgânica / Abstract: The purpose of this work was to produce an artistic creation focusing on the ¿Character Construction¿ by using the Dancer-Researcher-Performer (DRP) Method, (Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete: BPI). In addition, I intend to produce a textual reflection showing a theoretical development of this creative process. The DRP is a method of systematic perspective that integrates social, cultural, emotional and physical aspects and whose focus is corporal identity. This Method possesses three centers, all interrelated and inseparable: The ¿Body¿s Inventory¿, the ¿Co-habituate with the Source¿ and the ¿Construction of the Character¿. The Character in DRP functions as a possibility of Corporal Image development and as a centering process, permitting a closure of a gestalt. The ¿Co-habituate with a Source¿ took place in the region of Vale do Paraíba (SP), where I underwent the field research that deals with the popular manifestation ¿the jongo¿. Using the Cohabituate as the starting point, the Inventory of the Body phase was subsequently achieved on a profound level, thus opening the terrain in support of a creative process. The current research describes the various stages of how one construct¿s the character, which subsequently are presented and described through content groupings and specific work dynamics. Incorporating objects are referred to as necessary to capture body expression. All specific actions derived from the field research as well as the in depths work in the Body Inventory stage were aptly followed through in the Character Incorporation stage. Complementary field research, literal references to specific experiments with objects as well as theatrical experimentation permitted the Construction of the Character. The name of the character is presented as a perspective in order for the performer to develop her process. Implementing the DRP method, where the emergent body deepened its contact with its origins, co-habiting with other bodies and incorporating its empirical contexts experienced during the character formation, gave aperture for the Construction of Character. This, in the end, permitted an original dance both integrated and organic / Mestrado / Mestre em Artes

Ao atender o telefone no fim de 2009, ouvi uma voz feminina com sotaque anunciando, \"Aqui é Sheila Ribeiro\". \"O QUÊ?!\", quase caí para trás. Ela estava me convidando para integrar e escrever textos para seu projeto 7x7. Após alguns segundos de hesitação, aceitei. Há vinte e cinco meses eu não criava um texto original, mas com a ajuda de vários autores, com quem estudei desde 1992 e ainda estavam firmes e fortes, vasculhei meus arquivos, me debrucei sobre velhos cadernos e fotos antigas, texto-coreografei um material novo, acrescentei alguns pronunciamentos famosos e outros nem tanto, que seriam ditos a partir das coreografias. Fiz um mix de nove textos curtos que depois intitulei coreoescrituras. A referência às vanguardas e seus proverbiais - hoje disseminados - procedimentos artísticos foram intencionais, é claro, embora as frases venham tanto de um poema concreto como de uma canção popular e isso também já foi usado por Jérôme Bel no título de sua coreografia de 2001, The show must go on. O período de seis anos com o 7x7 na Bienal SESC de Dança e no Festival Contemporâneo de Dança foram maravilhosos. Eu amo trabalhar com os coreógrafos. Eles sabem exatamente o que são capazes de fazer e por que estão onde estão. Eles estão acostumados a dar duro e à limitada recompensa material que o trabalho traz. O 7x7 fez turnê por vários festivais no Brasil antes de ser premiado pela APCA na categoria iniciativa em dança, em 2014. O restante da tese é um amálgama de clipes de diálogos e falsas entrevistas em que eu mesma, Jérôme Bel e Xavier Le Roy, entre outros, nos alternamos no meu papel à medida que encenamos trechos de conversas originalmente ocorridas comigo e vários artistas e autores. Coreoescrituras - texto e dança em diálogo faz parte de uma pesquisa interminável que se originou na interação entre coreografia e escrita e inclui minha trajetória artística combinando fragmentos de dança e textos que abordam o embate entre arte e política no novo milênio. Ao editá-la descobri as maravilhas das estratégias de apropriação. Posso dizer francamente que nunca me diverti tanto. O elenco e a equipe racharam de rir, eu mais que todos. Desde 2002 tem havido mais remontagens e reconstruções. Fantasio sobre uma nova coreografia a partir de quatro extratos de peças icônicas. Em algum momento no meio disso, uma horda invade o palco em uma revolta política. Durante alguns anos depois de 2011, ano em que parei de performar e coreografar espetáculos - minha cabeça ainda inundada em imagens de movimentos - eu oferecia por brincadeira ideias de coreografias para outros coreógrafos. As imagens ressurgiram nos anos seguintes, em que me envolvi com a escrita. Não sei o que essa relação/oposição entre palavra e corpo significa ou pretende. Ao retornar à dança nos anos 2000, eu parei de escrever. E então novamente a linguagem do movimento suplantou a linguagem verbal. Falo comigo mesma, \"Não se preocupe. A mente trabalha por meios misteriosos, mais misteriosos ainda que o corpo\". O corpo declina, a mente continua a produzir linguagem. Aguardo ansiosamente as perambulações de ambos - mente e corpo - pela próxima década. Sendo assim, esta tese pode ser lida como outra coreografia. / Upon answering the phone toward the end of 2009, I heard an accented female voice announce, \"This is Sheila Ribeiro\" \"WHAT?!\" I nearly peed in my pains. She was inviting me to integrate and write texts for her 7x7 Project. After a few seconds of hesitation, I accepted the invitation. I hadn\'t written an original piece for twenty five months, but, assisted by various authors, who I have been studying with since 1992 and were still going strong, I raided my icebox, pored over old notebooks and vintage photos, choreographed some new text material, added pronouncements of famous and not-so-famous people, to be uttered based on the choreographies, and came up with a mélange of nine short texts that I later called choreowriting. The references to avant-garde proverbial - now widespread - artistic strategies were of course intended, although the phrases originated from a concrete poem and popular song which had already been used by Jérôme Bel to title his 2001 choreography, The show must go on. The six years period with 7x7 at Bienal SESC de Dança and the Festival Contemporâneo de Dança were exhilarating. I love working with choreographers. They know exactly what they can do and why they are there. They are accustomed to hard work and the limited material rewards that it brings. 7x7 toured various festivals in Brazil before being awarded for best dance initiative by APCA in 2014. The rest of the thesis is an amalgam of clips from dialogues and faux interviews in which I am alternately played by myself, Jérôme Bel, and Xavier Le Roy, among others, as we enact parts of a conversation that originally took place between artists, writers and myself. Choreowriting - text and dance in dialogue is part of a lifetime research that originated from the interplay between choreography and writing and includes my artistic career combining fragments of dance and texts that deal with the clash of art and politics in the new millennium. While editing it I discovered the wonders of appropriation strategies. I can honestly say it was just about the most fun I\'ve ever had in my life. The cast and crew bellowed with laughter, myself loudest of all. Since 2002 there have been more revivals and reconstructions. I have a fantasy about a new piece of choreography, from four extracts of iconic pieces. Somewhere in the middle of it, a horde of people rushes onto the stage in a political riot. For some years after 2011, the year I stopped performing and choreographing shows - my head still awash in movement images - I would jokingly offer others ideas for choreography. The images receded in the intervening years as I became involved with writing. I don\'t know what this relation/opposition between words and body means or pretends. As I returned to dance in the 2000s I stopped writing. And then again movement language superseded verbal language. I tell myself, \"Don\'t worry. The mind works in mysterious ways, even stranger than the body.\" The body declines, the mind continues to extrude language. I look forward to the perambulations of both - mind and body - in the next decade. It follows, then, that this thesis can be read as another choreography.

Orientadores: Claudia Mariza Braga, Sara Pereira Lopes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T16:43:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alvim_ValeskaRibeiro_M.pdf: 1879965 bytes, checksum: 53bf8a79d2ac50b85ad82b15ad8e5b1b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Desde o início dos anos 90, vem acontecendo uma expansão dos limites da dramaturgia para além das já conhecidas demarcações exclusivas da prática teatral. Atualmente, a dramaturgia é um dos mais importantes temas da arte contemporânea, pois se fala não apenas da dramaturgia do texto teatral, mas da dramaturgia do corpo, da dramaturgia da dança e da dramaturgia do espetáculo. Dentro desse universo, buscaremos compreender a construção da dramaturgia na dança contemporânea por meio das discussões que emergem da relação entre coreógrafo e dramaturgo, com a intenção de identificar, em cena, a concepção expressa por elas sobre o que vem a ser a dramaturgia e suas especificidades na concepção coreográfica. Para tanto, será utilizada uma abordagem teórico-analítica, implementada pela combinação da análise de espetáculo com levantamento documental e aplicação de entrevistas semiestruturadas que possam suscitar questões e respostas sobre o tema. A pesquisa proposta é, assim, relevante, se entendido que o conhecimento acerca do conceito de dramaturgia em dança é fundamental para melhor compreensão da necessidade de algumas danças, que se configuram como contemporâneas, e têm dramaturgos na realização de seus trabalhos / Abstract: Since the early nineties, the boundaries of dramaturgy have expanded beyond the already known exclusive theatrical practice demarcations. Nowadays, dramaturgy is one of the most important themes of contemporary art, inasmuch as it is not only about the dramaturgy of theatrical text, but also of the body, dance, and show. Within this universe, we seek to understand the construction of dramaturgy in contemporary dance, through the discussions that emerge from the relation between choreographer and playwright, with the intent of identifying, in the scene as well as in the speech, the concept expressed by them on what dramaturgy happens to be, and the insertion of the playwright into the specificities of the choreographic concept. Therefore, we'll make use of a theoretical-analytical approach, implemented through the combination of show analysis with collecting of documents and the use of semi-structured interviews that might bring questions and answers up on the theme. Certainly, there will be difficulties in accomplishing this research, insofar as this is an ongoing theme within contemporary art. Nevertheless, its accomplishment also hints at fascinating discoveries, which are essential to the work of stage artists, so that it's feasible to foresee a relevant contribution to the understanding of dramaturgy in dance and the performance of playwrights in some contemporary dance companies / Mestrado / Artes Cenicas / Mestra em Artes

Title: Evaluation of Developmental Tendencies in Fitness Aerobic Goals: Based on the content analyses and timelines of successful professional choreographies from the World Championship 2006-2016, the aim of this work is to forecast developmental tendencies and trends including the optimal content of professional choreographies within the organization FISAF for 2018. Methods: This Thesis has a character of a quantitative research. The main researching method is the timeline created with the help of a special program called Statistica 2017 and the content analysis developed with the help of a video recording. Results: Based on the results, it is possible to suppose that a composition can be successful only when it contains 15-16 swinging movements of legs and 17-20 vertical changes (squats, crouch positions) in the physical part, the musical part should consist of 2-4 musical artworks and within the part of choreography there should be 35-40 positions, approximately 25 - 28 contrasting divisions of the group in the movement and space and 10 - 12 interactions between the team members. Keywords: aerobics, fitness team, FISAF, choreography

This study aims to identify my personal choreographic approach to physical theatre-making and then to experientially expand on it by engaging with Joanne Butterworth‘s five-tier Didactic-Democratic spectrum model for choreography. Being accustomed to, and trained predominantly in, one mode of approaching choreography has become limiting. Butterworth‘s model may aid me in expanding choreographically in the context of physical theatre-making. My research is located in a qualitative paradigm. I use an auto-ethnographic, practice-as-research approach to conduct my research. To apply my practice-as-research approach, I use concrete experience, reflective observations, abstract conceptualisation and active experimentation as outlined by Kolb‘s Experiential Learning Cycle. Kolb‘s model provides an overall structure to this study, but is also the way in which I frame and read each of the three separate choreographic processes that I use in the study. The concrete experience I consider in this study is The Entertainer, a work which I choreographed in 2017. To establish a baseline for my research, I retrospectively reflect on The Entertainer to locate it on Butterworth‘s model by using units of analysis that link to the five tiers of the model. These units of analysis are the choreographer‘s role; performer‘s role; choreographer‘s input; performer‘s input; pedagogical positioning of social interaction; instruction methods; and the pedagogical positioning of performers. By using these units of analysis to consider The Entertainer, I position my initial approach to physical theatre choreography along the spectrum of Butterworth‘s model. I then use Kolb‘s abstract conceptualisation to plan how I will move beyond my initial approach to choreography as located on Butterworth‘s model. I do this by selecting tiers that lie to the extremes of my initial approach on the model. I employ Kolb‘s active experimentation, to choreograph two works, WALK and Swem, that each align with one of the extremes. I utilise the extremes since they are the furthest removed from each other and, as a result, challenge me to approach choreography in two ways that are not just completely different from each other, but also from my initial choreographic approach. Each of the three choreographic processes in this study (consisting of a choreographic approach and a resulting choreographic product) starts a new cycle of Kolb‘s Experiential Learning. I use each rehearsal period, along with panel and performer reflections, to create a thick description by means of a choreographic score based on the choreographic approach of each work. To create these three choreographic scores (the physical documentation of the rehearsal period), I also utilise other auto-ethnographic tools, such as journaling and reflective questions. Each score serves as concrete experience that I retrospectively analyse to locate the choreographic approach on Butterworth‘s model. To choreograph WALK and Swem, I utilised a rehearsal period spanning three weeks with the same three performers to calibrate reflection by asking them to complete reflection sheets based on rehearsals. Three panel members were required for expert analysis and therefore have at least a Master_s degree (with choreography as focus) and at least three years‘ experience of choreographing in physical theatre. These panel members attended two rehearsals of each choreographic work and, like the performers, completed reflection sheets in order to mediate my subjective experience of each choreographic approach for a thicker description of the choreographic instance. The panel also completed reflection sheets based on choreographic tracks (see following paragraph) observable in performance to mediate their experience of each choreographic product with my own subjective view. I identify similarities between a greater range of inputs (my own perspective, the perspective of the performers and the panel), to layer my thick description of the choreographic process as a whole. Since Butterworth‘s model is focused on choreographer-performer interaction and roles, it focuses on the choreographic approaches (rehearsals) and not on the choreographic products that result from each approach. I therefore highlight choreographic tracks that link to Laban Movement Studies. These are the treatment of the theme; general space usage; approach to the kinesphere; utilisation of shape; dynamics of movement (Effort); application of elements of choreographic craft; incorporation of soundscape; arrangement of choreographic structure; and integration of structural components/ assimilation methods. / Dissertation (MA (Drama))--University of Pretoria, 2019. / Drama / MA (Drama) / Unrestricted