DD Dorvillier'sNo change or 'freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516872 |
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| Authors | Jenn Joy (a c/o TDR: The Drama Review, 665 Broadway, 6th floor, New York, NY 10012, USA E-mail, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-216 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07407700701387341 |
| OpenAlex | W1979852573 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Working between the discourses of sculpture, sound, and choreography, I address the breaks and collapses of language precipitated by scattered sounds and objects in No Change or freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill (2005) choreographed and performed by DD Dorvillier. Her work proposes an improvisational choreography structured from relationships with objects-speakers, microphone stands, computers, cords-transposing the audial into a visual register. The bodies and objects they encounter act as a latent sound score, signifying trajectories not only of movement but of language, playing with feedback, interpretation, and accidental associations. This constant shifting between sculpture-sound-choreography emerges through an improvisational process, proposing a phenomenological animation attentive to the materiality of the objects as triggers of memory and meaning and as an alternative writing, a language inflected by a capacity to play, to break, to be bored, momentarily extending and scattering perceptional experience
Animation · Art · Choreography · Dance · Epistemology · Gesture · Improvisation · Temporality · Visual arts · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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