Defining our Research through practitioner "Rosemary Lee"

Our main area of research has stemmed from our chosen practitioner "Rosemary Lee" who is a choreographer who often explores human relationships whether it being a live performance on stage or more often as site specific. Our final choreographic work focuses on 3 aspects, performing not to perform , gaze and twin exploration. Rosemary Lee's choreographic work "The Suchness of Heni and Eddie" has specifically inspired some of our exploration tasks which we have carried out in our sessions with our two performers. Her piece has inspired us to highlight human behaviour and experiences when we perform to an audience or alone. This has influenced the idea of " performing not to perform" which is one of our main areas of focus, highlighting the question of at what point do we fake our performance qualities and when do we loose the sense of truth when exposed to an audience. This piece also uses the idea of inter-dependency in physical terms , which is underlined in our twin exploration. Her piece has also inspired us to highlight human behaviour and experiences when we perform in an audience. 

We have recorded how these tasks have made our performers and ourselves feel and we have given them questionnaires that will determine how our instructions have influenced rawness and emotions when performing to an audience or alone. We have been using different types of data collection such as questionnaires, journals, voice recordings and video diary's to gather our dancers reflections on their individual experience and thoughts when carrying out these tasks. Each method of collection is important to our research process and towards our choreographic work as it allows us to evaluate each performers experiences and enables us to develop and improve on what did and didn't work in our sessions.   



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