Dear All,
Please join us on March 9th, 11:00-12:30 PM in Rosenwald 329 to workshop methods for Anne-Sophie Reichert’s (PhD Student, Anthropology) study of Contemporary Dancers in Germany. As she’s grappling with an interesting object—body movement, and the way it moves across times and places—she’s looking to pin down an array of methods that will enable her to approach her topic in a most productive way.
To frame the discussion, she’s shared her NSF DDRIG application, and you can find it here. Bellow is the overview of her project:
How do dancers learn body movements and bodily skills? What are dancers’ methods for transferring specific body techniques from one body to another body? This research will investigate how contemporary dancers, who are experts in conscious body learning, develop new and adapt established body techniques. The Co-PI will study contemporary dancers in Berlin, Germany who are interested in the experiential-learning and the investigative rather than the performative potential of dance practice. Unlike musical notation, where the Western paradigm has become dominant, there is no universal notation system for body movement, neither in Germany nor globally. The Co-PI will therefore study how the dancers maintain and transfer body techniques across generations and locations. The Co-PI will employ participant observation, auto-ethnography, semi-structured and phenomenological interviews to study the experience, the concepts and the methods that make up the dancers’ body movement practice. An understanding of bodily learning provides anthropologists with a process-oriented approach to how social structures and norms are produced and reproduced in the movement and interaction of human bodies.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Sanja
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