Dreaming the Impossible: reimagining Blackness through dance improvisation

梦想不可能：通过即兴舞蹈重新想象黑人

• 批准号: 2879455
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birmingham City University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2879455
• 关键词: Dreaming; Impossible; reimagining; Blackness; through

This practice research PhD will investigate how blackness can be reimagined through dance improvisation. The term 'Black Dance' suggests a singular style or genre of movement that is separate from others, and as Adair & Burt note (2018) this makes it difficult to recognise the broad range of approaches developed by dancers who are black. Research questions:- How can reimagining Blackness support a (re)definition of black bodies in contemporary dance practices and scholarship?- What can dance improvisation as a tool to access ancestral and culturally embodied knowledge offer?- What is Black feminine experiential knowledge?- How can dance improvisation facilitate a (re)conceptualisation of the term 'Blackness' within the field?The project engages with several current issues in different disciplines, drawing upon key scholars in contemporary dance, social sciences, gender and sexuality, and Black studies including Hay (2016), Gottschild (2018), Hall (1990) and Andrews (2016). It is also informed by feminist discussion, and will interrogate these areas of scholarship to facilitate an expansive articulation of blackness. Underpinned by an auto-ethnographic, socio-intertextual exploration, the creative methodology consists of a series of solo movement performances centralising embodied and lived experiences of (my) black female body, supported by a written thesis.The black female body's lived experience is often hyper sexualized: the policing of sexuality is a colonial infraction, where bodies that articulate a corporeal sensuous carnality are deemed as indecent and contemptible (Carey 2016). Navigating (my) black femininity, and taking a positionality of the body as a vessel of embodied knowledges containing a plurality of presences, the research will explore how accessing one's archive through movement allows dance to become a display of 'cultural memory' (Patten 2018).Potential impact of the research:- A (re)contextualisation of current terminology and of definitions of Black bodies in contemporary dance scholarship; specifically (re)considering preconceived viewings of blackness and the categorisation of 'Black Dance'. - (Re)defining the black body in the moment of performance to produce alternative histories of itself: through accessing Black ancestral embodied knowledge, allowing these to transfigure in live space and time.- (Re)outlining parameters of Black female bodies through a refusal of colonial viewings of the female body in practice which engages with sexualised movement vocabulary; moving the body from an object to actively reclaiming erotic agency.Recent global dialogues around 'Black Lives Matter', racism and inequality witnessed othered bodies demanding space and (re)negotiating their presences. This enquiry is a continuation of socio-political actions for change, celebrating black bodies via structures and practices from contemporary dance improvisation and applying these in ways which are informed by black culture and their lived experiences (Adair & Burt 2018). Therefore (re)defining blackness through a refusal of the colonized gaze and proposing new ways to read the black body in contemporary dance and beyond.Years 1 - 4- Attend appropriate research seminars/conferences- Develop dance improvisation Practice Research- Case studies- Writing of thesis chapters - finalising in year 4Years 2-4- Creation & performance of solo practice - One or more per yearYear 4- Preparation and delivery of viva

这个实践研究博士将研究如何通过舞蹈即兴重新想象黑暗。“黑人舞蹈”一词意味着一种与其他舞蹈不同的独特风格或运动类型，正如Adair & Burt（2018）所指出的那样，这使得人们很难认识到黑人舞蹈家所发展的广泛方法。研究问题：-如何重新想象黑人支持（重新）定义黑人的身体在当代舞蹈实践和学术？即兴舞蹈作为一种工具，可以提供什么样的祖先和文化体现的知识？什么是黑人女性经验知识？舞蹈即兴创作如何能促进场域中“黑暗”一词的（重新）概念化？该项目涉及不同学科的几个当前问题，借鉴了当代舞蹈，社会科学，性别和性行为以及黑人研究的主要学者，包括Hay（2016），Gottschild（2018），Hall（1990）和Andrews（2016）。它也被女权主义者的讨论所告知，并将询问这些学术领域，以促进对黑人的广泛表达。在自我民族志、社会互文性探索的基础上，创作方法包括一系列的独奏动作表演，集中体现（我的）黑人女性身体的体验和生活经验，并有书面论文支持。黑人女性身体的生活经验通常是超性化的：对性行为的监管是殖民地的违法行为，在这种情况下，表达肉体感官肉欲的身体被认为是下流和可鄙的（Carey 2016）。导航（我的）黑人女性气质，并采取身体的位置性作为包含多种存在的具体知识的容器，研究将探索如何通过运动访问一个人的档案，使舞蹈成为“文化记忆”的展示（Patten 2018）.研究的潜在影响：-当前术语和当代舞蹈奖学金中黑人身体定义的（重新）语境化;特别是（重新）考虑对黑人的先入为主的看法和“黑人舞蹈”的分类。- （重新）在表演的时刻定义黑色身体，以产生自身的替代历史：通过访问黑色祖先的具体知识，允许这些在生活空间和时间中变形。（重新）概述黑人女性身体的参数，通过拒绝在实践中对女性身体的殖民观点，其中涉及性运动词汇;将身体从物体移动到积极回收色情机构。最近围绕“黑人生活重要”，种族主义和不平等的全球对话见证了其他身体要求空间和（重新）谈判他们的存在。这种调查是社会政治变革行动的延续，通过当代舞蹈即兴创作的结构和实践来庆祝黑人身体，并以黑人文化和他们的生活经验为基础的方式应用这些身体（Adair & Burt 2018）。因此，通过拒绝殖民化的凝视来（重新）定义黑色，并提出新的方法来解读当代舞蹈及其他领域的黑色身体。1 - 4年级-参加适当的研究研讨会/会议-发展舞蹈即兴实践研究-案例研究-撰写论文章节-在4年级完成2-4年级-创作和表演独奏练习-每年一次或多次4年级-准备和交付viva