Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 93 p. : col. ill. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.) (Hons.) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1998. / Bibliography : p. 62-63.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 30, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-136).

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1995. / Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Judith M. Burton. Dissertation Committee: Ann H. Dils. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-248).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 231-237). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

A qualitative investigation is proposed to examine flow experiences in professional ballet modern dancers in order understand the nature of this psychological experience. It is not well understood where and when professional dancers experience flow, and whether or not their subjective experience is correlated to what an audience evaluates in a dancer’s performance. The study of performance quality and subjective experience of the dancer has not been studied within the dance movement analysis literature. This is an important topic to research to further understand what factors facilitate or debilitate a professional dancer’s well-being. This study aims to determine any facilitating and mediating factors of flow experiences in professional ballet and modern dancers. Additionally, it aims to address whether a dancer’s performance is perceived as being competent, and if the dancer’s experiences of the performance matches the levels of competency. Two hundred professional ballet and modern dancers (100M, 100F) will participate in this study. These participants will be recruited from the professional companies based in the United States. This study will also analyze the relationship that the reported flow scores have with evaluations of performance competency. Each participant will be interviewed to determine their personal experiences of flow, if they have had any. Following the interview, they will complete the Activity Experience Scale – 2 (DFS-2). A researcher will observe a rehearsal and a performance to evaluate each participant using the Performance Competency Evaluation Measure. Following the rehearsal or performance, the participant will complete the Event Experience Scale-2 (FSS-2). The mean scores from the FSS-2 will be analyzed using a two-by-two factorial ANOVA to determine if modern dancers experience significantly higher levels of flow in performance with no effect across gender. The effects of performance competency evaluations between the style of dance and mean flow scores were examined using mediation analysis and Sobel’s test. Additionally, it is predicted that the number of hours of rehearsal and performances will be established as a mediating factor between the style of dance and mean flow scores. The same methodology will be used for mediation analysis to test this hypothesis.

Le philosophe artiste est une figure fantasmée ou désavouée. Par sa seule possibilité, il représente l’impossible frontière entre le discours philosophique et la création artistique. Bien qu’il invoque cette figure polémique, Nietzsche n’a pas été en mesure de fonder le philosophe artiste, mieux, il l’abandonne au profit d’un Dionysos ressuscité, plus à même de surmonter la confrontation avec Apollon. Or, voilà une figure orpheline qui ne semble plus que renvoyer à une nostalgie romantique et idéale où la philosophie, enfin, partagerait ses objets privilégiés ainsi que ses propres méthodes d’analyses avec la pratique artistique. Pourtant la question mérite d’être posée : par quelles modalités le philosophe artiste serait en droit de porter ensemble la philosophie et l’art ? La présente thèse tente de réintroduire ce problème pour le moins « éternel » en enquêtant pas-à-pas sur les lignes de tension typiques que cette figure met en jeu : la forme et le contenu ; la métaphysique et le phénomène ; le langage et la métaphore. De même, si Nietzsche est l’objet central de la recherche, nous évoquerons toutefois d’autres philosophes non moins typiques, comme Merleau-Ponty ou Deleuze, ainsi que Spinoza ou Aristote. Toutefois, il ne s’agit pas de ressaisir encore une fois ces problématiques proprement philosophiques, leur réintroduction doit s’éprouver dans la pratique artistique. La thèse envisage donc, à chaque fois, une issue par la création artistique, au lieu de tenter vainement d’élire une figure sans maître et sans limite, la thèse exposera des créations chorégraphiques originales. Ces créations ont été produites en parallèle avec la recherche, elles ont donné lieu à des œuvres singulières qui ont été préoccupées par les mêmes problématiques que la thèse. Elles confèrent à l’étude le degré de plasticité dont l’exposé proprement philosophique pouvait manquer. De plus, elles abolissent la frontière, car elles subissent les mêmes contraintes que celle de l’exposé, puisque Panopticon interroge le panoptisme étudié dans Surveiller et punir de Foucault, Amor fati, le concept de l’éternel retour selon Nietzsche ; être au monde, reprenant le problème de la sensibilité de Merleau-Ponty ; et enfin, L’éthique s’astreignant à réinvestir d’un point de vue sensible l’architecture de l’œuvre axiomatique de Spinoza. N’était-ce pas cela le sens du philosophe artiste ? Expérimenter, éprouver pour en étudier les effets ? / The philosopher artist is a either fantasized or disowned figure. Its very possibility represents the impossible border between philosophical discourse and artistic creation. Although Nietzsche invokes this polemical figure, he has not been able to establish the philosopher artist. Indeed he abandons it in favor of a reincarnated Dionysos, better armed to overcome the confrontation with Apollo. Here is, then, an orphan figure which seems to only refer to a romantic and idealistic nostalgia where philosophy, at last, would share its privileged objects as well as its analytical methods with artistic practice. The question should nonetheless be asked: through what means ought the philosopher artist carry together art and philosophy?This thesis attempts to reintroduce this “eternal” problem by investigating every step of the way the typical tensions that this figure convokes: form and content; metaphysics and phenomena; language and metaphor. Similarly, although Nietzsche is the central figure of this investigation, we will also call upon other and equally typical philosophers such as Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, as well as Spinoza and Aristotle. However, the aim of the thesis is not to grasp once again these properly philosophical problems as their utterance should be tested through artistic practice. Rather than uselessly attempt to elect a figure without master nor limit, the thesis thus contemplates, each time, a solution through artistic creation, manifested in original choreographic creations. These creations were produced in parallel with the research and elaborate singular works of art based on the same questions as the thesis. They confer to the dissertation a certain plasticity that the purely philosophical argument may have lacked. Further, they abolish the border inasmuch as they confront the same constraints as the argument: Panopticon interrogates panoptism as studied by Foucault in Discipline and Punish; Amor Fati elaborates on the concept of “eternal return” developed by Nietzsche; Etre au Monde recasts the question of sensibility as explored by Merleau-Ponty; finally, L’Ethique strives to reinvest from a sensible point of view the architecture of the axiomatic work of Spinoza. Is it not the meaning of the philosopher artist? Experiment and feel to study the effects?

From Introduction: Ankoku Butoh is a performing art devised in Japan in the wake of the Second World War by the dancer and choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata (born Akita, 1928; died Tokyo, 1986). A highly aesthetic and subversive performing art, Butoh often evokes "images of decay, of fear and desperation, images of eroticism, ecstasy and stillness." Typically performed with a white layer of paint covering the entire body of the dancer, Butoh is visually characterized by continual transformations between postures, distorted physical and facial expressions, and an emphasis on condensed and visually slow movements. Some of the general characteristics of Butoh performance include "a particular openness to working with the subtle energy in the body; the malleability of time; the power of the grotesque."

Esta dissertação faz parte de uma pesquisa poética que abrange produções artísticas em dança. Assim, o corpo contínuo ou algodãozado é apresentado não como um conceito, mas como uma noção que opera construindo obras. Esse termo é uma imagem cunhada no âmbito da produção artística e pedagógica da autora, e procura dar conta de um entendimento de um corpo que não se reduz ao biológico, um corpo que, uma vez experimentado, desdobra-se em imagens, conceitos, palavras, sensações, impossibilitando o encontro com uma realidade última ou com um eu. Esse corpo também se desdobra no espaço, ao qual se entrega, do qual depende e com o qual é dinamicamente formado. Nesse campo de um eu problemático, o ponto de vista em primeira pessoa, a via da escuta das sensações, procura ser uma ferramenta de acesso para que se possa perceber os jogos de poder, de definições de realidade e conceitos, reiterados nas ações corporais, entendidas como idênticas a conceitos e imagens. Como essa experiência não encontra um ponto de fundação, passa a ser entendida como detonadora de um processo de criação permanente, confundindo arte e vida e solicitando ao fazer artístico a responsabilidade por explicitar as convenções que o legitimam, bem como pela proposição de outros modos de fazer. Daí a necessidade de compreender um processo artístico à luz das tradições que informam seus modos de fazer, ou, dito de outra maneira, que lhe subjetivam. No caso desta pesquisa, esta tradição abrange o legado de John Cage e Merce Cunningham, e, mais especificamente, da geração da Judson Church, ou da chamada dança pós-moderna norte-americana dos anos 1960 e 1970, especialmente no que se refere ao uso de técnicas de educação somática proposto como procedimento artístico por esses últimos. As produções artísticas aqui enfocadas – a série Caixas, os desdobramentos do espetáculo Instruções para abrir o corpo em caso de emergência e os procedimentos de falar-fazer – são produzidas por esse entendimento. Ao longo dos anos da pesquisa, o fazer das mesmas foi demandando a complexificação do entendimento do corpo algodãozado, desembocando na própria abordagem da escrita aqui presente como um de seus desdobramentos poéticos. / The present dissertation is one of the results of a research in Poetics, which comprises also artistic Dance productions. The terms Continuous or Cottoned Body are presented not as a concept, but as a perception that develops a work of art. Cottoned Body is an image derived from the author’s Artistic and Educational history, built on the understanding of a body that can’t be reduced to Biology. A body that, once experienced, unfolds into images, concepts, words, sensations, not to be limited to a ultimate reality or a Self. The firstperson point of view, the way of listening to sensation, is an tool to access power games, definitions of reality and concepts, which are reiterated in body actions – herein understood as identical to concepts and images. The foundations of such experience are not attainable, therefore it fosters a permanent creative process, blurring Life and Art, and compelling the Artist to present the conventions that legitimate her Poiesis. Hence the need to comprehend Poiesis in light of the traditions that subject it. In the present research, this traditions can be traced back to the legacy of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, and the Judson Church generation from the 1960s and 1970s. We focus specifically on the use of Somatic Education as a tool for artistic creation by the Judson Church group. The artistic works analyzed in this dissertation (the Caixas series; the developments of Instruções para abrir o corpo em caso de emergência; and the Falar-Fazer procedures) are a result of such comprehension. During the research time, the Poiesis of these works engendered a complexification of the notion of Cottoned Body. This complexification resulted in the narrative approach presented in this dissertation, itself one of its poetic unfoldings.

Esta dissertação faz parte de uma pesquisa poética que abrange produções artísticas em dança. Assim, o corpo contínuo ou algodãozado é apresentado não como um conceito, mas como uma noção que opera construindo obras. Esse termo é uma imagem cunhada no âmbito da produção artística e pedagógica da autora, e procura dar conta de um entendimento de um corpo que não se reduz ao biológico, um corpo que, uma vez experimentado, desdobra-se em imagens, conceitos, palavras, sensações, impossibilitando o encontro com uma realidade última ou com um eu. Esse corpo também se desdobra no espaço, ao qual se entrega, do qual depende e com o qual é dinamicamente formado. Nesse campo de um eu problemático, o ponto de vista em primeira pessoa, a via da escuta das sensações, procura ser uma ferramenta de acesso para que se possa perceber os jogos de poder, de definições de realidade e conceitos, reiterados nas ações corporais, entendidas como idênticas a conceitos e imagens. Como essa experiência não encontra um ponto de fundação, passa a ser entendida como detonadora de um processo de criação permanente, confundindo arte e vida e solicitando ao fazer artístico a responsabilidade por explicitar as convenções que o legitimam, bem como pela proposição de outros modos de fazer. Daí a necessidade de compreender um processo artístico à luz das tradições que informam seus modos de fazer, ou, dito de outra maneira, que lhe subjetivam. No caso desta pesquisa, esta tradição abrange o legado de John Cage e Merce Cunningham, e, mais especificamente, da geração da Judson Church, ou da chamada dança pós-moderna norte-americana dos anos 1960 e 1970, especialmente no que se refere ao uso de técnicas de educação somática proposto como procedimento artístico por esses últimos. As produções artísticas aqui enfocadas – a série Caixas, os desdobramentos do espetáculo Instruções para abrir o corpo em caso de emergência e os procedimentos de falar-fazer – são produzidas por esse entendimento. Ao longo dos anos da pesquisa, o fazer das mesmas foi demandando a complexificação do entendimento do corpo algodãozado, desembocando na própria abordagem da escrita aqui presente como um de seus desdobramentos poéticos. / The present dissertation is one of the results of a research in Poetics, which comprises also artistic Dance productions. The terms Continuous or Cottoned Body are presented not as a concept, but as a perception that develops a work of art. Cottoned Body is an image derived from the author’s Artistic and Educational history, built on the understanding of a body that can’t be reduced to Biology. A body that, once experienced, unfolds into images, concepts, words, sensations, not to be limited to a ultimate reality or a Self. The firstperson point of view, the way of listening to sensation, is an tool to access power games, definitions of reality and concepts, which are reiterated in body actions – herein understood as identical to concepts and images. The foundations of such experience are not attainable, therefore it fosters a permanent creative process, blurring Life and Art, and compelling the Artist to present the conventions that legitimate her Poiesis. Hence the need to comprehend Poiesis in light of the traditions that subject it. In the present research, this traditions can be traced back to the legacy of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, and the Judson Church generation from the 1960s and 1970s. We focus specifically on the use of Somatic Education as a tool for artistic creation by the Judson Church group. The artistic works analyzed in this dissertation (the Caixas series; the developments of Instruções para abrir o corpo em caso de emergência; and the Falar-Fazer procedures) are a result of such comprehension. During the research time, the Poiesis of these works engendered a complexification of the notion of Cottoned Body. This complexification resulted in the narrative approach presented in this dissertation, itself one of its poetic unfoldings.