Breath-Body-Self: Reflections on Performance-Based Approaches through a Women's Theatre Project in South Africa

Title

Breath-Body-Self: Reflections on Performance-Based Approaches through a Women's Theatre Project in South Africa

Description

This article explores the relationship between breath and emotion and between breath and image in an attempt to make theatre and performance that is inspired by a biography of the body. It investigates the body as a site for generating images for the purpose of performance-making. The article is a methodological study that draws from various traditions, methods, and somatic practices. It explores the relationship between body, breath, and feeling and how these impacts on the imagination in processes of producing images for performance-making. It further investigates whether breath can be experienced as an embodied element that is sensed somatically by performers. The author argues that it can, and in so doing may, act as a catalyst for activating memories, stories, and experiences held in the body of the performer.

Creator

Sara Matchett

Date Issued

19 March 2019

Source

Link to Journal Article

keywords

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Theatre See all items with this value
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Gender Violence See all items with this value
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Type

Journal Article

Language

English

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (VSR)

doi

https://doi.org/10.1080/23268263.2019.1591097