Emergent Choreography: Spontaneous Ensemble
EMERGENT CHOREOGRAPHY: SPONTANEOUS ENSEMBLE DANCE COMPOSITION IN IMPROVISED PERFORMANCE A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF DANCE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE BY NINA MARTIN, B.A., M.F.A. DENTON, TEXAS AUGUST 2013 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To the participants that have made this study possible: all my gratitude. Over the years, my students and my colleagues in the performance ensembles of Channel Z, Locktime, and Lower Left Performance Collective have served as the fertile fields of inquiry that inspired my work. I value the support of my Ph.D. cohort, including that of Valerie Alpert, Tamara Ashley, Adrienne Clancy, Joan Frosch, and especially Nona McCaleb, whose camaraderie in scholarship and life has been invaluable. My dissertation chair, Dr. Linda Caldwell, and my committee members Dr. Rosemary Candelario and Sarah Gamblin, M.F.A., have helped me immeasurably toward my goals as a scholar. I am grateful to my graduate professor and mentor, Dr. Frances Bruce, who elevated the intellectual framework that underpins this research and served as my content reader. I thank Dr. Steve Sherwood, Director of the TCU Writing Center and Josh Wariya-Daniel who have helped shaped my words in order to more eloquently convey my meaning. I appreciate the support of my siblings, Sharon Martin Kocurek, Laura Martin Labatt, Helen Martin Reeves, and Loretto Martin Patterson, whose support for this endeavor has been crucial to my success. I especially value my sister, Dr. Mary Martin Patton, Dean of the College of Education at TCU, who has mentored me from my return to undergraduate studies in 2003, through my Master of Fine Arts degree in 2008, and iii now the completion of the Ph.D.
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