Studio Laboratory

The concept of connectivity and transformation guides the elements of my process. It is about sharing the experience and perceptions of the choreographic process. The layering of activities become strands that connect and intersect with materials, both “human” and “non-human” within the environment. My practice is identified by my experiences, like threads of a web connecting to discoveries. “The thing, however, is not just one thread but a certain gathering together of the threads of life” (Ingold 10). As I began to work on artistic research activities with other dancers in the studio, I notice that we have come together as individuals with our histories, experiences, physiology, and psychology. In the act of exploring tasks in the studio collectively, “In the language of phenomenology, this is “intersubjectivity,” or transcendence of self toward others and the world” (Fraleigh 2000). Exploring choreography as a body-centered approach, and sharing this experience with others allows space for multiple meanings to emerge, adding both depth and texture to a piece of work. Participation in dance movement is a lived experience, integrated knowledge, and the conscious embodiment of movement and dance uncover rationals within an art form that can hold various approaches. “Dance-based practices can access bodily knowledge that is otherwise out of reach” (Leavy 156). My choreographic method includes forming, arranging, making, and altering in its process of discovery.