The project focuses on affectivity as an embodied aspect of the way we engage in movement practices. Empirically, we focus on different kinds of dance practices – in concrete: recreational community dance programs and the professional artistic practices connected to the site-specific performances ‘Mellemrum’ by choreographer, dancer, and performer Kitt Johnson.
While recent phenomenological and enactive works on affectivity have indicated different ways we scaffold our affective states and moods by manipulating, organizing and choosing among objects and environments, this project zooms in on the ways dancers attune themselves affectively.
We investigate dancers’ and performers’ ways of:
(a) preparing themselves for artistic exploration and performances by ‘listening’ to their body, the environment, others, and/or energies.
(b) ‘juggling’ their attention and thereby – potentially – their affective engagement.
Professor Giovanna Colombetti, University of Exeter, UK is connected to the project (guest professor from 2018-2021 and adjunct professor from 2021 and onwards).
References:
Ravn, S. (2021) Improvising affectivity – Kitt Johnson’s site-specific performances. In S. Ravn, S. Høffding and J. McGuirk (eds.) Philosophy of Improvisation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice. Oxon: Routledge.
Conrad, R. (2021) Staging Affectivity through Expressive Dance Movement: The 60+ Community Dance Program at Copenhagen’s Dansekapellet.
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