The emerging sense
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): silvia giordano
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The research deals with fostering intuition in the creation process and on the preparation needed to tune with our sixth sense in choreographic practice. The term intuition is here considered as a fundamental component of thought that has its roots in the process of tacit learning from experience while the tension generated by the swirling intuitive and cognitive intricacies of dance-making, is discussed in terms of fruitful cohabitation. The research explores ways of enhancing the choreographer’s intuitive skills and building trust into intuitive capacities. Different ways of attaining intuitive knowledge are addressed for the development of a toolbox of practices allowing the awakening of the senses in the pathway of creation. The aim is to help the maker to tune into his intuitive thoughts and to further explore the transmission of choreographic inputs to other bodies. The methodological approach responds to the hybrid nature of the inquiry and navigates fluidly between a conceptual framing, practice-and-research and practice-as-research methodologies, through auto ethnographic techniques of investigation, prioritizing qualitative enquiries on the choreographer and on the performers’ personal experience in the studio.
