Abstract: Places That Shape You documents the development and
experience of composing and presenting Places That Shape You, an
evening-length dance performance examining the relationship between
culture and urban spaces, inspired by the physical parameters that
cities provide for our lives. In the performance, a blend of
postmodern contemporary movement vocabulary, text, projection, a
mattress, 12 phonebooks and an overhead projector were used to a
tell a story through the contrast of objects both obsolete and
current. Musical collaborator, Austen Mack, created an original
score that worked in partnership with the movement, advancing the
unfolding of concepts about public and private spaces, community,
memory, expectation and abstraction. In collaboration with six
dancers, the choreographer conducted movement and archival research
investigating personal stories, urban theory, somatic experience,
place-making, and memories left in the spaces people inhabit,
culminating in an evening length performance.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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