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The problem of this study was to arrange, develop, and stage creatively a complete dance composition in four parts using the ocean as a thematic source. The five specific purposes relating the theme and the choreography were developed and expressed through the medium of modern dance. A written report including the historical and scientific background of the thematic source and the choreographic process was also submitted. A video-tape recording is also available of the completed dance composition.

Dear visitor, reader, artist, researcher, and human being,  As I am writing this letter, allowing it to perform the role of an abstract, I am just about to graduate the Masters program in Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts. This MA has for me, among many other things foremost been a commitment and engagement in a two-year-long collective project and research on the never-ending wonder and question of what dance and choreography can be and can do. Throughout these two years, my research has been weaving itself from behind the back and backspaces, into the deepest vulnerability and out through the relationality. From there it has weaved further out and found its way to memories and ghosts, that most often have appeared in the middle of everything and everywhere. This research made me dance every day, at home, in the streets, in the studio, on travels, behind others, in front of myself, and in the felt sense of the present moment on our planet. This research also made me make 20+ casts of human backs, write more than 100 letters, take photos, and videos, create a part of a collective ZINE, use my voice (often for others), and engage with Swedish society and its history of individualism and my experience of loneliness. I practiced with my back as my front and I engaged with my own paradox; how could a research based on relationality, backspaces, and vulnerability take shape within a solo? Would it be possible to create a solo that is also a group piece?  On May 4th and 5th 2024, the dance performance All those things left behind, for now, was performed at MDT Moderna Dansteatern in Stockholm, Sweden, as a result of this research. A solo performance in which I aimed for a dance where several bodies would take place in my body. As if my body could be shaped by other bodies in the moment of dancing. I made a solo that takes a step back and shifts its focus from forward-oriented to backward-oriented. A solo in which grief is taking place, honoring lost loved ones, as well as forgotten futures. A vulnerable solo? A solo that deals with the present moment and the fact that everything is and will always be in the process of change. A solo that delves into all of this through dancing. Because I believe in dancing. And so the letters, a format I have been engaging with as a writing practice from within my dancing practice. There are a lot of strong correlations between these two practices. They're both relational. They hold movements; close small ones as well as bigger stretches overseas. They hold time, meaning a present, past, and future. They deal with a sender and a receiver. They involve, presuppose, and evoke a relation, conjure up the other, and guide us into conversation. Just like dancing. To write, send, and receive letters is for me procedures of intimate acts, acts of care, and a wish to share. Just like dancing. The letters can hold fantasies, facts, friction, fiction, fantoms, and fantastic movements. Again, just like dancing. I find that fascinating.  I collected 50 letters, written between August 2022 and May 2024. They perform the role of an essay and documentation of my Master’s degree project. The letters are written mainly from me, but also from other beings and things, performed by me. They are addressed to living and non-living beings and bodies of materials, written from different places and dance spaces on our earth. And from times of study, movement, crisis, war, grief, labor, hope, despair, love, and joy. What’s public here on Diva is a smaller collection, which was part of the collective Zine that I and my classmates did. If you are interested in reading and viewing more, you are more than welcome to contact me.  All the best, Matilda Bilberg

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One of the top television reality shows today is So You Think You Can Dance? This show showcases many talents of top choreographers, including Ms. Mia Michaels. But what makes her stand out from the other choreographers in her field? With this thesis I explore why I believe Mia Michaels to be the best emotional storytelling choreographer of the twenty-first century. Analyzing examples from the show, four from Michaels and four from other choreographers and using a movement scoring method, I find why her work stands out. I will also explain how Michaels got her start in choreography, her philosophy and creative process along with why story is even important in dance. By learning more about how her uses personal vulnerability and emotional struggles in storylines that connect to a larger community in her choreographed movement, other choreographers can use her tools to further their own individual work.

Title: Compared creative approaches in creating a dance composition. Goals: The aim of this thesis is to find similarities and differences in the creative approaches of selected Czech and foreign authors of choreographies. Methods: A qualitative research and casuistry as the main research method was selected for this thesis. Namely comparative studies, which together with the survey through semistructured (depth) interview, conducted with selected experts in the field of choreography, compared the two cases among themselves - Czech choreographers with foreign reformers. Results: In the research part of the thesis, based on the literature research and accomplished investigation, there are similarities and differences found in creative approaches of Czech choreographers and foreign reformers. The outcome of the research is a comparative table following the life and work of choreographers in three areas: the entry conditions, the process of creation and creation outputs. Research has found possible functional approaches to dance practice and experience. Keywords: Art, dance, choreography, creation, comparation.

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.

The Production of Spring Awakening by Nathan Halvorson Master of Fine Arts (Directing) Thesis - May 2013

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