Imagine a lilly pond. Each lilly floating independently. The individual lilly is framed by the water that surrounds it. The lilly pond becomes apparent by the presence and absence of lillies. This thesis is a compilation of diverse floating articles. Not everything has been covered. I hope that the gaps revealed illuminate the edges of the work. Different writing styles have been adopted in an attempt to get closer to the complexity and ephemerality of the research -- research that has taken place in the dancing body. In presenting the written material this way, I wish to take the reader on a journey -- an experiential journey into the dance -- one that is 'like' the dance rather than an extracted description of it. I hope that the reader will 'come to their senses' and feel the materiality of the dance as I have studied it and known it in my body and with-in the bodies of the other two dancers. The framework for the research in the body has been the integration of the histories collected in our bodies -- practices, trainings, country and culture -- all of which continue to slip and slide, continually re-forming themselves and re-inventing the dancing and not-dancing bodies that we are. / Master of Arts (Hons)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/189460 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Crisp, Rosalind, University of Western Sydney, School of Contemporary Arts |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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