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Freedom In Surrender, Vahri G. Mckenzie
Freedom In Surrender, Vahri G. Mckenzie
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Background: The work is an artists’ profile of Claudia Alessi published in dancewest, the WA edition of the Australian Dance Council magazine. Alessi is a leading independent dancer and choreographer. It draws on my case study of Alessi to show how embodied knowledge and physical sensation inform her current choreographic process, and the transmission of this knowledge. As a dancer and researcher I use archival, field research and self-reflection to ask: how do we make creative processes explicit when they’re experienced as sudden insight?
Contribution: I was invited to contribute a series of artists’ profiles to dancewest. The research draws …
A Visceral Kind Of Understanding, Vahri G. Mckenzie
A Visceral Kind Of Understanding, Vahri G. Mckenzie
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Background: The work is an artists’ profile of Michael Whaites published in dancewest, the WA edition of the Australian Dance Council magazine. Whaites is Artistic Director of LINK, WAAPA’s graduate dance company. I was invited to contribute the piece to fit with the education theme of the edition. It draws on my case study of Whaites to show how embodied knowledge and physical sensation inform his current choreographic process, and the transmission of this knowledge. As a dancer and researcher I use archival, field research and self-reflection to ask: how do we make creative processes explicit when they’re embedded in …