| “Feeling and Becoming: Towards a Post-Somatic Dance”. New PhD in SRT Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. Funding from Midlands4Cities Scholarship. Lizzy Le Quesne has successfully completed a practice-based PhD exploring the dance of becoming: a rigorous analysis of SRT through Deleuze and Guattari’s political philosophy, and vice versa, extended through choreographic and performance practice. This research articulates an original embodied ethics of becoming and the ethico-aesthetic performance form of ‘post-somatic dance’. The performance “Desire Paths and the possibility of Innocence” was presented at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, London. Practice Research with somatic and SRT trained dancers and improvisers: Franzizka Boehm, Laura Dhoeler, Mayson Fung, Mira Hirtz, Thalia Laric, Elisa Vassena, Margarita Zafrilla-Olayo, and videographer Dominique Rivoal. Supervision: Ruth Gibson, Sarah Whatley (Coventry Uni, Centre for Dance Research) and Claire Blencowe (Warwick University, Sociology Department). The PhD builds upon Le Quesne’s previous funded research (MRes, Coventry University), an original articulation of SRT as a practice of safety and freedom through creative engagement of the autonomic nervous system. |
