We have Dr Susanne Ravn from the University of Southern Denmark visiting Macquarie Uni next week. She works on dance phenomenology and cognition, sports science, and dance/ movement education.
URL: http://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8080/portal/en/persons/susanne-ravn%28d24d705b-d330-48ff-a8cd-a45f3da484eb%29.html Susanne will give a talk (title and abstract below), next Tuesday, April 1st, at 4pm in the main seminar room 3.610, Level 3, Dept of Cognitive Science, Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University. All welcome. Email me [email protected] if you need directions, or if you would like the opportunity to talk to Susanne during her visit. *Creating spaces: dancers' practices of movement and sensing* *Susanne Ravn, University of Southern Denmark * As has been emphasized from a variety of theoretical approaches, socialrelations and the production of space are inevitable to be understood as co-constructed. Different kinds of movement can, accordingly, be considered active forces in the ongoing and intertwined creation of space and social relations. In her field opening book *Dance, Space and Subjectivity* (2001) Valerie Briginshaw focuses on describing the conjunction between body and space - and the interfaces thereby created. In her analysis she brings to the fore how these interfaces are in process and how different kinds of dance performances allow for rethinking subjectivity as well as space. However, only relatively few writings have offered further contemporary descriptions and explorations on how the relation between movement and space is actively created and possibly questioned in the movement practices of different dancers. Based on the practices of 13 professional dancers working with very different dance forms (classical ballet, different contemporary dance technique and/or Butoh dance) this paper focuses on describing and discussing how the dancers in different ways contribute to create and produce the space in relation to which they also move. Through their practices the dancers bring attention to that seeing refers to at least three different ways of seeing and at least three different ways of handling seeing when moving. The way they actively work seeing thereby comes to exemplify how they shape their relation to space and how they purposely modify and contribute to their way of interacting in the current situation. They alter the sensorial production of the movement practice and their experience of this practice. From a bodily perspective the subject's being in the world is turned into an active exploration. By purposely changing their sensorial way of handling interaction and movement the dancers question what their being in the world 'could be like'. -- Professor John Sutton Deputy Head, Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.johnsutton.net/ http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ http://mq.academia.edu/JohnSutton
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