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PARIP 2003 NATIONAL CONFERENCE: 11-14 September BACON:
JANE M The aim of this performed paper is to problematise and develop current research on performance documentation whilst discussing the research methodologies employed in a particular case study – ‘The Woman’, an improvised practice as research project by ‘redleaf dance’, artistic director Jane Bacon. As a solo interdisciplinary performer I use performative self-ethnography, film ethnography and ‘focusing’ (Gendlin, 1981), or the ‘felt-sense, as a method of recognising how we attend to our experiences of the world'. These are the theoretical tools I will be using during the performance/paper to develop structured improvisations that generate fragmented reflexive stories in emerging relationships between performative disciplines and between performance and documentation. My question in respect of this practice is: ‘Must practice as research include some form of disseminable ‘reflection’ or is the practice in performance / screening contexts sufficient to stand as research outputs? This work is developed within The Choreographic Lab, a practice-based research centre (Director, Jane Bacon) that has a commitment to assisting artists/researchers to explore and develop their personal tools of communication in respect of their creative processes. I am Senior Lecturer in Dance and Performance Studies at University College Northampton. Previous performance and video work includes: The Woman (2001, 2002, 2003) a continuing research project with intermittent performance outcomes; ‘Unveiling the Dance: Arabic Dancing in an Urban English Landscape’ (unpublished PhD,2003); Insistence…cont’d (2001); Shimmies and Veils in Middle England (1999); Going for it! Dancing and Community in Northampton (1998); The Collection (with Midgelow, 1999); Phasia (with Hale, 2000); Practically Perfect by Practically Perfect People (with Daniels, 2000); Trains, Planes and Automobiles (with Hale, 2001).
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