Performative Pedagogy is a philosophical essay on dance telling of the necessity to
reintegrate dance in the curriculum as well as a performative inquiry that recognizes
space-moments of learning realized through performance. Dance/tool of exploration/research is
the integration of multiple layers of understandings, intellectual, physical, emotional, and
spiritual, in the absence of word and the presence of silence.
This text is a creative response to researchers seeking a legitimate space of recognition
for our arts-based processes. Writing choreographically is the integration of phenomenology of
kinaesthetic consciousness, hermeneutics, and the not yet known in a moment of imagining. Text
sometimes linear, sometimes not, inter-danced with personal photographs, autobiographical
narratives, poetry, dancing on the page, exploring a space moment of imagining with you. I
explore concepts such as "embodied awareness", "thinking in movement", "voice of the soul",
"intentional rhythm", and "language" using a methodology of performative inquiry.
Writing choreographically a dance space of imagining invites the reader in a historical
journey of dance, from Ruth St-Denis, Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman to post-modernists
Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer, the Grand Union, and Canadian choreographers Francoise
Sullivan, Jennifer Mascall, Chick Snipper, and Daniel Soulieres and myself, blurring the
boundaries between dancers, choreographers, viewers, as well as between the mediums. This
historical movement creates an opportunity for readers to question their own inquiry in dance.
Performative Pedagogy: Writing choreographically a dance space of imaginings is an
artistic adventure inviting you to re-create meaning within this performative inquiry the same
way a spectactor would during a dance performance. Through the explorations of danced
moments into the unknown, we may offer pedagogical possibilities. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/10613 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Giard, Marie Annette Monique |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 5305146 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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