Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Miles, Stephen

Keywords

Collaboration, Experimental, Music, Dance, Theater, Performance

Area of Concentration

Interdisciplinary Performance

Abstract

This thesis is the written component of a performance project co-conducted over the 2009-2010 academic year. This project was comprised of fall workshop rehearsals, composition of set pieces in January, and a final performance event. Working collaboratively with an ensemble of students, we structured improvisational games and created a distinct compositional vocabulary based on these games. We composed pieces individually as directors for a final performance, which took place on Sunday, January 31st, 2010. We did not begin this project with a specific end product in mind. This process was highly reflexive; we allowed the experience of rehearsals to guide our structure. We constantly received feedback from our ensemble members and each other, as well as our thesis advisor, to ensure that the development of our project was based on the reactions of its participants. We argue that this collaborative, reflexive method of art-making provides infinite opportunities, both within our particular work and within the context of the art world. This has the potential to positively affect the artists and the participants involved as well as influencing the societal function of art in our modern world.

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