Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Honors Thesis (Open Access)
Department
Colby College. Theater and Dance Dept.
Advisor(s)
Ann Marie Kloppenberg
Second Advisor
Todd Coulter
Abstract
This essay aims to illuminate and champion concert dance through an investigation into a sliver of American postmodern dance, which I term post-Judson dance, in an attempt to better understand, define, and assert dance in academe, art, and culture. This thesis examines the use and benefits of collaboration in today’s dance devising processes and the influences that constructed collaboration as a choreographic working method. Through historical, theoretical, contemporary, and practice-based evidence, this essay argues that through choreographer and performer participation, leading to the transformation of content, style, structure, and discovery, choreographers harvest an expansive collection of information that they use to make the most fully explored, articulate, and compelling creative work. Ultimately, I argue that today's choreographers are curators.
Keywords
dance, collaboration, curation, post-Judson
Recommended Citation
Gibbons, Sara, "Co-Authorship in Action: Curation & Collaboration in American post-Judson Dance" (2015). Honors Theses. Paper 771.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/771
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