{"id":2224,"date":"2017-03-19T18:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2017-03-19T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:41:49","slug":"22-march-2017-research-seminar-on-performance-intimacy-and-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/03\/19\/22-march-2017-research-seminar-on-performance-intimacy-and-emotion\/","title":{"rendered":"22 March 2017: Research Seminar on Performance, Intimacy and Emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Please join us for the next PEP Talk<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>the seminar series of the\u00a0Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. All welcome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Papers by Ruth Way and\u00a0<\/strong>Eugenia Stamboliev<\/b><\/p>\n

Wednesday 22 March 2017,\u00a04.30 \u2013 6.00pm<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Roland Levinsky Building, room 308<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ruth Way & Russell Frampton, ‘Blind Torrent’ (2012)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“Clearing A Path: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Somatic transformations in the Opening of Hearts and Spaces, Dances of Self-Agency and Empathic Response”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ruth Way<\/strong><\/p>\n

This\u00a0working paper begins to explore\u00a0spirituality as a journey, what Rachel Kraus (2009) refers to as the ability “to discover something larger than ordinary life. It is a dynamic on-going process which sometimes includes negotiating one\u2019s understanding of and experiences of the sacred”. Kraus draws our attention to spirituality as connection with others, forming deeper human bonds and this is particularly helpful and relevant to my attempt to reveal the spiritual dimension and qualities pertaining to somatic dances of self-agency. I aim to explore how somatic movement practice can become charged with the potential for change and transformation. It will seek to realise connections between these transformative states with perceptions of spirituality and investigate what meaning this might hold for those dancing.\u00a0I propose that aspects of spirituality in somatic movement practice become palpable when we consider them to be, as Amanda Williamson (2010) purports, as reflective of our material life and “historically, socially and culturally dynamic and not purely transcendental”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ruth Way<\/strong><\/a> is Associate Head of School, Performing Arts and Subject Head for Theatre and Performance at Plymouth University. Her\u00a0specialist teaching and research areas are in screendance , performance training and somatic movement practice.\u00a0Ruth has had an extensive career as a professional dancer and choreographer performing with Earthfall Dance and Lusty Juventus Physical Theatre and has presented her practice as research though performative papers, articles, screening and performances internationally. With visual artist Russell Frampton, she is co-director of Enclave Productions developing dance\/art films, which have been screened in France, Russia, Estonia, Australia, Poland, USA and Brazil. Ruth was the choreographer for\u00a0Heaven is a Place<\/i>\u00a0(2014) a dance film made in collaboration with Roberta Mock and Kayla Parker. Since 2004 Ruth has studied under Sondra Fraleigh in East West Somatic Movement Practice and is a certified and registered somatic movement educator through ISMETA. Her recent book chapter \u2018Somatic Awakenings\u2019 features in Fraleigh\u2019s latest publication\u00a0Moving Consciously<\/i>\u00a0(2015). Ruth acts regularly as a mentor for emerging dance artists and choreographers and is a member of the board of Directors for Plymouth Dance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Spillikin (A Love Story) by Pipeline Theatre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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“Performing intimacy: On the dilemma of representing affection with non-human bodies” <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Eugenia Stamboliev\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The field of artificial emotions (AE) is focused predominantly on phenomenological and\u00a0aesthetic qualities when simulating and representing emotions or affects (Fong et. al. 2003).\u00a0This is driven by humanoid robotics (HR) being grounded in a materialistic, reductionist way of\u00a0embodying AE as gesture based system (Ekman 1999, Picard 1997). One way of unpacking\u00a0potential issues of a purely performative structure of emotion is to discuss the inclusion of\u00a0humanoid robots as \u2018emotional actors\u2019 in contemporary plays. I will discuss why these\u00a0collaborations are becoming more tempting, in artistic and scientific terms, and how the\u00a0theatrical stage actually predicts a near future of including humanoids robots in our daily lives\u00a0while pointing to the issues or gains awaiting us with our new \u201ccompanions\u201d.\u00a0I am using the play Spillikin. A love story<\/em> (2016) that was performed recently at the Royal\u00a0Theatre in Plymouth to illustrate my points.<\/p>\n

Eugenia Stamboliev<\/strong><\/a> is an associated researcher at Transtechnology Research at Plymouth\u00a0University and a PhD fellow in the Marie-Curie initiated doctoral training network, CogNovo. Her\u00a0current research explores the phenomenology and codification of intimacy within different\u00a0fields, such as film, theatre and science. Her explicit focus lies on discussing how the visual, the\u00a0affective and the imaginary are intertwined to standardise experience in favour of\u00a0representation. Her educational background is in Media Studies (University of Arts, Berlin),\u00a0Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought (European Graduate School, Saas-Fee) and in Law, Art History\u00a0and German-Jewish Literature (Free University Berlin).<\/p>\n

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The PEP Talks organising team:\u00a0Chris Green, Katheryn Owens &\u00a0Beth Emily Richards\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Please join us for the next PEP Talk,\u00a0the seminar series of the\u00a0Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. All welcome. \u00a0Papers by Ruth Way and\u00a0Eugenia Stamboliev Wednesday 22 March 2017,\u00a04.30 \u2013 6.00pm Roland Levinsky Building, room 308 “Clearing A Path: Somatic transformations in the Opening of Hearts and Spaces, Dances of Self-Agency and Empathic Response” Ruth… Continue reading 22 March 2017: Research Seminar on Performance, Intimacy and Emotion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,138],"tags":[581,73,466,79,14,232,612],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-for-plymouth-university-researchers","category-transdisciplinary-creative-practices","tag-affect","tag-dance","tag-eugenia-stamboliev","tag-pep-talk","tag-performance","tag-ruth-way","tag-somatic-practice","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}