Titel (eng)

Landscape and its memory in performer´s body elements of Czech Duncanism and its transformations

Beschreibung

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.

Masterarbeit
Masterstudium Movement Research
RA 066 767

Sprache des Objekts

Englisch

Datum

2022-06-07

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