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Microchoreographies: Dynamics of Virtual Corporeality as a Way of Organizing Visual [Social] Spaces

Student: Iuriichuk Daria

Supervisor: Ilya Inishev

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: Visual Culture (Master)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2018

Annemarie Mol and John Law showed the transition from the substantial concepts of the body to the continuous one - body that we do. Keeping oneself together is something the embodied person needs to do by re-assembling ones boundaries. But if the body is constantly re-assembling itself, could we imagine such an experimental reassembly that would provide strategies for escaping from prescribed assemblies? Contemporary dance could be such an experimental field, the laboratory of new assemblies. It creates new practices and, therefore, has the ability to shift the boundaries of the body, inventing it, thus, anew. Choreography is one of the structural elements of contemporary dance, which can be used as a tool for managing new practices. Today the idea of ​​choreography as a rigid structure and authentic movement are criticized: the authentic movement today seems to be an essentialist approach, so as radical oblivion of structures needs revision. Microchoreography is the idea of ​​emancipative choreography, which offers opportunities instead of discipline: instead of conforming to it, we can use it as a tool for mapping movement from an internal perspective. This inalienable choreography produced together with corporeality, which actualizes the virtual as a sphere of possibilities, connects thinking, vision and movement into a single cognitive process.

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