Waterhouse, Elizabeth (2024). An Autoethnographic Spiral: Dancing "Showerhead" (In Press). Memesis
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)This essay performs an autoethnographic spiral around a movement called showerhead—a spiraling motion, beginning with the dancers’ right hands that is a key motive in the duet "Duo" by William Forsythe. Autoethnography is practiced through blending ethnographic methodology and dance studies analysis. I return to fieldwork notes, interviews and videos made in the context of my doctoral research (2016–2019) as well as previously published writings in order rethink the interrelation of time, memory and dance in my research into "Duo." My writing demonstrates how dance historiography may depart from a teleological narrative of performance process and a linear reconstruction of chronological time; instead, through an autoethnographic spiral, I account for embodied memory that is holistic and nonlinear, articulated relationally and defined by the particularity of "Duo"’s choreographic labor and curvilinear movements
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Theater Studies |
UniBE Contributor: |
Waterhouse, Elizabeth Neumann |
Subjects: |
700 Arts > 790 Sports, games & entertainment |
Funders: |
[4] Swiss National Science Foundation |
Projects: |
Projects 192436 not found. |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Elizabeth Neumann Waterhouse |
Date Deposited: |
03 Apr 2023 14:06 |
Last Modified: |
26 Apr 2024 14:04 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/181167 |
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