Searching for Something Else: On Choreography and Poetics
Author: Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Course: MFA Choreography
Year: 2020
This thesis attempts to blur the lines (if there is one) between the poetics of choreography and the poetics of language. Through the analysis of text, poems, and choreographies, I create a
choreo-poetic practice that is both generative in the studio, and reflective as a mode of analysis.
I illustrate connections between choreography and language through the use of poetry and poetic thinking. I ponder on whether the body is capable of translating and transforming
language and the benefits of one versus the other. I try to articulate the way composition was thought of as an active activity of performance within my own practice. I resist closing and meditate on different ways closure might come without actually landing, situating in one place.
This is all done in parallel with writers I admire, so much so that, textually, I mimic their style of writing to add another level to poetics present within this thesis. These writers include: Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, CAConrad, and new Nobel Laureate Louise Glück.
This, I believe, is a poet’s project; it is an inquisition to see if the lenses and understandings I have garnered as poet can be used, hybridized, and further, expanded to include the choreographic or, perhaps, reveal the choreographic that is inherent within language already.
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dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-28 05:15 |
dc.date.copyright | 2020 |
dc.identifier.uri | https://researchonline.trinitylaban.ac.uk/oa/thesis/?p=1774 |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis attempts to blur the lines (if there is one) between the poetics of choreography and the poetics of language. Through the analysis of text, poems, and choreographies, I create a I illustrate connections between choreography and language through the use of poetry and poetic thinking. I ponder on whether the body is capable of translating and transforming This is all done in parallel with writers I admire, so much so that, textually, I mimic their style of writing to add another level to poetics present within this thesis. These writers include: Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, CAConrad, and new Nobel Laureate Louise Glück. This, I believe, is a poet’s project; it is an inquisition to see if the lenses and understandings I have garnered as poet can be used, hybridized, and further, expanded to include the choreographic or, perhaps, reveal the choreographic that is inherent within language already. |
dc.language.iso | EN |
dc.title | Searching for Something Else: On Choreography and Poetics |
thesis.degree.name | MFA Choreography |
dc.date.updated | 2021-06-28 05:17 |