Choreographic Process and Skinner Releasing Technique
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33Z_OP_I0033
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- _Making Lemonade_: Body, Space, Object symposium: Coventry (2015); Tran(s)mit International Screendance festival: Philadelphia, USA (2016), etc. _Vis-er-al_: 9evenings Redux, Vivid Projects: Birmingham (2016); Mexico City Videodance Festival (2016), etc.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2015
- URL
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https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1017703/1017704
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Polly Hudson’s _Choreographic Process and Skinner Releasing Technique_ is a Research Catalogue exposition built around two pieces of screendance, _Making Lemonade_ (2015) and _Vis-er-al_ (2016), supported by theoretical underpinning. Collectively, these offer a paradigm shift in understanding Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) from that of a dance technique to one of choreographic methodology. Thematically the work examines notions of ‘selfies’ and questions this culture.
The output shares the latter part of a research practice developed over a sustained period. It is a detailed examination of a dance technique and its application to choreography. Central to the research is applying the findings to dance making.
SRT is the dance technique that underpins many aspects of contemporary dance, and as such has considerable influence, but it has not previously been examined in this way. The underpinning principles of the dance technique were interrogated and applied to choreographic processes in a number of settings, each activity leading to the next. These linked in-depth studies in choreography for provide evidence of the evolution and application of the methodology.
The research has been transmitted globally in over 30 settings. Dissemination via academic papers and conferences includes: ‘SRT and screendance’, Dance and Somatic Practice conference: Coventry, UK (2015), and ‘SRT and the artist-scholar: shifting paradigms in contemporary dance’, International Symposium on Practice-as-Research, Hong Kong Academy for Performance Arts (2017). The research received funding from public bodies including Arts Council England, and awards in screendance festivals in the USA, Chile, Italy and Sweden. It has been the subject of scholarly attention in Hetty Blades, ‘Screendance Self/portraits’, _International Journal of Screendance_ (2018); and has informed the work of other creative artists including Emily Warner. The research has been shared in other public forums including _Slow Dancing, The Embodiment Podcast_ (2020).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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