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Guiding Inner Journeys: Choreographing Inner Conflict in a Diverse Group of Dancers (last edited: 2025)

Marjolijn Breuring
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This research was conducted with a diverse group of dancers, varying in age, background, and dance experience, and was guided through somatic embodiment and artistic articulation. Through a somatic approach, the body was explored as both an archive of lived experience and an oracle for emergent knowledge, offering a strong gateway into authentic dance material. The creative process unfolded through four phases: somatic exploration and improvisation, composition, structuring, and refinement. Throughout, leadership shifted fluidly between an open, facilitative mode, amplifying the dancers’ voices, and a more directive mode, articulating the artistic vision. The methodology highlights how initial somatic explorations were gradually shaped into choreographic form, maintaining a dialogue between internal embodiment and external composition throughout the process. Key insights include that this process proved particularly effective within a diverse group context, demonstrating that, regardless of formal dance training, each individual, when guided somatically, can access embodied memory and, through compositional shaping, transform authentic movement into coherent choreographic structure. Both the research and the resulting performance, Equilibrium, do not seek to offer resolution, but rather to evoke recognition and the possibility of coexisting with tension.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsSomatic practices, Embodied memory, artistic research, improvisation, composition, group processes, creative process, Choreography, somatic exploration, choreographic structure, diverse dance groups, diversity in dance, leadership, self-criticism, Tension, self-acceptance, Recognition
date08/05/2025
last modified09/05/2025
statusin progress
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affiliationJoint Master Choreography (codarts Rotterdam/Fontys Academy of the Arts
copyrightMarjolijn Breuring
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3641426/3644389


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