| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 min.) : digital, sound, colour |
| Summary |
Body Listening is a process which prepares the body to register and process spatial and performative awareness. At its core is the notion that the body is a discriminating organism able to send and receive physical information; it explores the body s relationship to performing spaces and to other bodies and develops movement and vocal patterns in relation to refining the perfomer-presence in the space. As such, it locates the performing body in a spatial-aesthetic construction where bodies are not neutral and their physiological presence is explored. Body Listening arose out of a desire to understand the inner mechanics of the body s transmission and reception of intention. Its originating contexts are team sports, geography and landscape, live engagements between performers, and between performers and audience. For example, a seminal dualism exists in the relationship between live performance and Australian Rules football, or more precisely, any team sport that requires its players to function on a 360 degree physical sensibility. Utilising the idea that performance on a stage is not so different to performance in a sports arena body listening requires of the player an uncanny ability to know where one s ensemble or team members are at any given time |
| Credits |
Director: David Pledger ; producer: Lydia Teychenne |
| Cast |
Presenter: David Pledge ; performers: Todd Macdonald, Sang Won Seo, Carlee Mellow, Richard Haynes, Inhsung Song |
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Movement notation.
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Movement, Aesthetics of.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Performance art.
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Acting.
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Dance -- Physiological aspects.
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Kinesiology.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Pledger, David. director
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Teychenne, Lydia, producer
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Artfilms-Digital (Firm), distributor
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| ISBN |
9781922007445 |
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