Masterarbeit Masterstudium Movement Research RA 066 767

ABSTRACT: The current thesis is written by a practitioner in dance, movement, and choreography, and it aims to support the artistic practice with a conceptual background. The thesis develops two fields of interest: firstly, it introduces the Czech branch of Duncanism, its philosophical origin coming from Isadora and Elizabeth Duncan, and the methodological approaches established by the Czech representatives Jarmila Jeřábková and Eva Blažíčková. The author analyses the principles, elements, and transformations of the Duncanism in the Czech environment, these elements serve as a base for further movement explorations. The second field of the research is represented by the memory of the landscape, examined from the perspective of the performer and her body experience in the process of creation. The silenced, erased, or veiled memory of the landscape is analysed with more attention. The practical part of the research is situated in the area of a defunct town of Lauterbach, a part of the Sudetenland on the Czech borderland. The author from the position of a performer engages the embodied memory of landscape to create a movement reminiscence of a defunct town. In the last part of the thesis, the Duncanist movement elements, applied as a practical tool, and the lived experience of the performer, are used to access the memory of the place and to preserve the transferable physical imprint of the landscape of Lauterbach.

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