Self-Authoring Feminine Blackness: Developing Decolonised Practice Methodologies within British Contemporary Dance

我提议的项目将进行基于实践的研究，由我在硕士研究期间开发的原始社会互文框架提供信息，以调查英国当代舞蹈中自我创作的女性黑人。这个博士学位将建立在我在硕士阶段的学术研究和我随后的专业实践的基础上，开发非殖民化的编舞方法和表演模式，并将其应用于教育学。自我创作指的是通过在艺术作品中培养独特的方式来表现自己的身份，从而获得对自己种族、性别和自传的表达自主权的过程。这个概念通过提供工具来产生非殖民化的创作方法，促进英国当代舞蹈中的黑人女性，解决了舞蹈行业中突出的更广泛的误解问题（hooks, 1992; Akinleye, 2016）。

My proposed project will conduct practice-based research, informed by an original socio-intertextual framework which I developed during my MA research, to investigate self-authoring feminine blackness within British contemporary dance. This PhD will build on my academic research at Masters level and my subsequent professional practice to develop decolonised choreographic methodologies and performance modalities with application in pedagogy. Self-authoring denotes the process of gaining autonomy of the representation of one's race, gender, and autobiography by cultivating distinct ways of presenting one's identity within artistic work. This concept addresses the wider issue of misrepresentation highlighted in the dance industry (hooks, 1992, Akinleye, 2016) by providing tools for producing decolonised creative methodologies that facilitate Black women within British contemporary dance.