A Portrait of Imprints Through the Canvas of the Landscape
Date of Award
5-2018
Document Type
MSU-Only Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
College/School
College of the Arts
Department/Program
Theatre and Dance
Thesis Sponsor/Dissertation Chair/Project Chair
Kathleen Kelley
Committee Member
Lori Katterhenry
Committee Member
Maxine Steinman
Abstract
For a ballet dancer, the studio is her space, her container, and her home. There is comfort in and attachment to the studio as it is a place she is told what, where and when to move. Over the years and through my studies, I have shifted where my comfort zone [my home] and my creative process lives because I am no longer comfortable in the conventional studio space. Through my research, I discovered how three different spaces, the studio, the Hangar Theatre, and the Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum, influenced my movement and how the "self" (a dance maker) and a "space" cannot stand alone to create the narrative. The need for the “self” and the “space” to co-exist is essential in my process of developing and sustaining a cohesive idea of movement. The depth of complexity when listening to my “self” and the “space” has developed a vital and clear relationship. This paper will explain the pathway I created in my new-found knowledge of each space and how I began “listening” and reacting to each space so that the work and energy of the dancers, and myself, could adapt and live purposefully.
File Format
MP4
Recommended Citation
O’Brien, Amy Walker, "A Portrait of Imprints Through the Canvas of the Landscape" (2018). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 216.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/216
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Comments
The performance video is restricted to the Montclair State University community but the PDF file of the thesis, which is located at the bottom of the screen, is available to anyone interested in reading it.