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Transformation Is... An Arts Practice-Led Research in Dance, Design and Social Transformation

abstract: Transformation Is... is an arts practice-led research in Dance and Design, embodying and materializing concepts of structure, leadership and agency and their role in bringing about desired social transformation. My personal experiences as a foreign student interested in transformative experiences gave origin to this arts practice-led research. An auto-ethnographic approach informed by grounded theory methods shaped this creative inquiry in which dance was looked at as data and rehearsals became research fields. Within the context of social choreography, a transformational leadership style was applied to promote agency using improvisational movement scores to shape individual and collective creative explorations. These explorations gave birth to a flexible and transformable dance installation that served as a metaphor for social structure. Transformation revealed itself in this research as a sequence of process and product oriented stages that resulted in a final performance piece in which a site-specific interactive installation was built before the audience's eyes. This work became a metaphor of how individual actions and interactions effect the construction of social reality and how inner-transformation and collaboration are key in the process of designing and building new egalitarian social structures. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.F.A. Dance 2014

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:25099
Date January 2014
ContributorsSibauste Bermudez, Janelle Mariel (Author), Kaplan, Robert (Advisor), Britt, Melissa (Committee member), Standley, Eileen (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format55 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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