PAR: Identity.Culture and The Body
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Roxi Victorian
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The process of exploration in Practice as Research, for me, is first engaged in the spiritual and sensory nature of how I approach being. Being open and allowing work, thought, action, dance, inquiry, and movement to come and move through me from God, my ancestors, my connection to the earth, and the purpose placed upon my life. Sensing and feeling are the impetus from which I begin. Allowance is uncomfortable. It seems forced at first, a need to do...but what is doing? Today I make meaning by feeling and collecting. I give in to my body, I resist the urge to think it into doing, and I move. I rest, I leave, and I emerge with quiet insight. Sometimes crowded in the creases of my brain. I breathe. I collect. I collect images and words, people and feelings. I collect the sensorial experience of being and learning. I steer blindly in search of more questions. Today's breath is my dance. In pain, I resist the urge to push. I rest, and I breath.
Research Questions:
"How does the physicality/cultural experience identity
of one's body experience inform their [dance] work?"
*The dance is co-created in multiple iterations throughout the process. Even as I type, my fingers dance to the melodies of soulful Hip hop music in the background. Head nods and rhythmic movement interludes are all a part of the dance that is me. Ontologically, I exist fully through the dance. And so the dance is in all things. Join me in moving. Let's Rock!
Consider opening the link below as you explore my work. Each link is intended as a new lens through which to listen and visually explore the assemblage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLI71xx56Mg&ab_channel=AmerigoGazaway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrHPj9JGbSM&t=3196s&ab_channel=AmerigoGazaway
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nina+simone+lauryn+hill
Thank you for visiting my first exploration of this kind.
"What is Truth?"
