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TERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the Req TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794quirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF DANCE' by Jennifer L. Conley May 2014Examining Committee Members:Dr Joellen Meglin. Advisory Chair. DanceDr. Karen Bond. DanceDr. Dorothy Merritts. Franklin and Marshall College. Earth and EnvironmentDr Kariamu Welsh. DanceDr Edward Flanagan. Externa TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794l Examiner. Music StudiesABSTRACTThe geologic theory of plate tectonics, sometimes referred to as "the dance of the continents,”' proposes a \ ision oTETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794
f Earth as dynamic body ill motion that is constantly shitting and altering its form. Geophysical research during the 1950s and 1960s. especially in rTERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the Req TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794ation of new faults U1 Earth's crust, established enough scientific evidence to suggest a viable model of this dance of the continents. This led to the geoscientific community widely accepting the theory of plate tectonics by the end of rhe 1960s. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate h TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794ow the idea of Earth as a dynamic body in motion can be connected to the experience of one’s own body in motion and in movement practice. Emerging froTETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794
m my work as an artist and an educator, this research analyzes the creative processes and the phenomenological essences of two geologically inspired dTERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the Req TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794 phenomenological method of analysis infonued by Max Van Mancii and Chuk Moustakas to examine what It means to embody tcircslrial Ibices, entities, and landscapes, and how geologic structures and scientific ideas can be translated into anthropomorphic movement. In chapter- 1. “Sediments of Meaning: TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794Phenomenological Analysis of Pieces ofPele” Ĩ devise a theoretical structure for critical reflection upon and development of the choreographer's creatTETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794
ivity, which 1 call a mcla-chorcographic process. This essentially hermeneutic method of reflection allows choreographers to more deeply understand thTERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the Req TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794nological .Analysis of Tectonic Suite," illuminates the profound role of metaphor in both the creative process and the viewing experience 111 relation to this particular dance from my GeoDance repertoire. Using the framework of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's analysis 111 Metaphors He Live By. I de TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794monstrate how dance can function to create coherent metaphors.Ill chapter 6. "Dancing Earth. Dancing Body.- Experiential Learning of Geologic ConceptsTETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794
.” I use an ethnographic framework to examine student perspectives of Dancing Earth. Dancing Body. This analysis reveals that, as the instructor of thTERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the Req TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794mbedded within these tluee modes of creative inquiry were a variety of somatic experiences and refocused dance-based exercises that amounted to a technique of sorts, with the specific goal of awakening and fostering the development of our body-muid-enviroiuneiit connection. I theorize this collectio TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794n of experiences and exercises as a geosoniatic movement piactice.Illuminated throughout this dissertation are key sources from the fields of dance, gTETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794
eology, somatics, ecology, phenomenology, eco-phenomenology. and ethnography— evincing the interdisciplinary' nature of this study. At the heart of thTERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the Req TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794and gravitation. Therefore, by deepening our understanding of how we can cope with these physical aspects of our environment. we can deepen our under standing of Earth and its processes.ivFor Rex.' The earth and myself are of one mind.The measure of the land the measure of our bodies are the same.”C TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794hief Joseph of the Nez Perce NationVACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe ideas presented in tins dissertation developed over the course of the seven years, while I wasTETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794
conducting research as a doctoral student at Temple University. I am indebted to the following dance faculty at Temple for their guidance and enlighteTERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the Req TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794ential for creative and pedagogical processes to inform scholarly investigations, and never once questioned the notion of being both an artist and a scholar. I also recognize each of my committee members for helping me to find my voice in (his research Dr Bond for illuminating phenomenological metho TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794dology' and always encouraging an experiential voice to emerge in my research: Dr. Kariamu for nourishing the poetic nature of this work and remindingTETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794
me to give voice to the cultural context that informs this investigation: Dr. Dorothy Merritts for bringing a geomorphic expertise to this study thatTERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the Req TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794s research. Lastly. I am especially grateful for the generous contributions of my primary advisor. Dr Meglin. To use a geologic metaphor. I have learned from her how to crystallize my ideas. I would also like to mention (he Temple University Provost’s Commission on the Arts for gr anting me the uniq TETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794ue opportunity' to stage the evening-length concert. GeoDance Theatre, at the Conwell Dance Theatre in Philadelphia in February 2009.The dance communiTETDEDXConley-temple-0225E-11794
ty at Franklin and Marshall College has also provided a fertile ground for the experimentation and implementation of my geosomaticViTERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the ReqTERRESTRIAL RESONANC E: EXPLORING EARTH THROUGH DANCEA Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate BoardIn Partial Fulfillment of the ReqGọi ngay
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