Embodied sampling as a process of developing an individual moving identity for male dance professionals

Grogan, Jayden (2020) Embodied sampling as a process of developing an individual moving identity for male dance professionals. Master of Philosophy by Creative Works, Queensland University of Technology.

https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205869/1/Jayden_Grogan_Thesis.pdf

This research project investigated individual Australian professional male contemporary dancers’ creative practice, to consider how the concept of ‘moving identity’ develops over a professional dance career. The results from the research study demonstrated that each ‘moving identity’ of the three independent Australian professional male dancers interviewed developed in multivariate ways over their careers as dance practitioners. Established inside the researcher’s practice-led research were a publicly archived series of choreographic scores and improvised online videos entitled 'The Museum of Curiosities'. In conjunction, a resourceful toolbox of 'embodied sampling' strategies was developed from the researcher’s creative practice when investigating his moving identity.