6th Annual Judith Ramaley Celebration of Research and Creative Scholarship
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Performance #1 At The Heart Of Things Laura Hestbeck, Maria Rankin, Jenna Roebuck, Autumn Rife, Sydney Swanson Faculty Mentor: Gretchen Cohenour THAD 295: Body and Water is a class centered on interdisciplinary and collaborative investigation of the phenomenon of water. It looks at water as a vital life presence in the human body and in nature through the fields of dance, art, biology and geosciences. This movement project is a collaboratively choreographed dance performed by dancers and researchers based off studies on irregular heartbeats called arrhythmias. Our movement study started with research on the fluid systems in the body which transformed into how blood flows in our body, and one step further to focus on blood flow within the heart. During an arrhythmia, the heart can go through episodes of tachycardia where the heartbeat is abnormally fast and bradycardia where the heartbeat is extremely slowly. Qualities such as time, space, and energy were observed in our research on the venus flow and the arterial flow in the atriums and ventricles of the heart. We witnessed similar qualities in the movement pathways of streams in the WSU flume lab. These connections found between the physical structures and movement pathways of the heart and streams in nature were perceived, explored, and developed through discussion and movement process. By embodying the flow of blood in the heart and water in streams, we were able to discern and transfer the research into visceral and organic movement. |
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