Displacements: disciplinary overflows for the transformation of performing conventions in research-creation in dance

Abstract

This study examines the staging of "Displacements", performed in 2020 and 2021 at the National Dance Company of Ecuador (CNDE); which was conceived as a research initiative that merges artistic experimentation and academic reflection. In the first phase of the research, an experimental laboratory is developed that integrates several body technologies: Kundalini Yoga, dance, and performance. To this, autoethnographic reflective tools and focus groups are integrated, discussing themes that arise before or after each rehearsal. In the second phase of the research, data is collected through open-ended interviews with each participant. The results discuss the transformations of the disciplinary processes of dance within the institution. In addition, the practices and agreements are analyzed as a methodology for collective creation, which is expressed in the writing of this article and includes the direct voice of the five participants. The reflection on the assembly of body and ethnographic techniques is deepened. Finally, the displacements of the scenic conventions and the experimentation within the choreographic device in relation to the spectators are characterized.

Research in Arts

Body Technologies

Experimental Ethnography

Dance

Collective Creation