Musicality is sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music or the quality or state of being musical, and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music

Neo-classical dance is a style that emerged in the early 20th century as a response to classical ballet. It retains the technical precision and structure of ballet but introduces greater freedom, abstraction, and innovation in movement and form.

Artistic methodologies that actively involve audiences or communities in creative processes.

Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode.

The idea that identity, meaning, and power are constructed through repeated actions and embodied practices. Relating to or of the nature of dramatic or artistic performance.

A philosophical approach to studying lived experience and perception in relation to movement. An approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience.

Popular dance refers to dance styles that emerge from and are widely practiced within mainstream culture, often evolving through social interaction, media, and entertainment industries. These dances are typically accessible, adaptable, and shaped by cultural trends.

In dance as in visual art, positive space refers to the main subject and negative space is all other empty space. In this case, the first dancer occupies positive space with a body shape and the partner creates a shape filling in the negative space created by the first dancer.

A theoretical perspective that questions human exceptionalism and explores the relationship between bodies, technology, and ecology.

A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.

Emerging in French intellectual life in the late 1960s and early 1970s, post-structuralism embraced Jacques Derrida’s deconstructionism and the later work of Roland Barthes, the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva (b.1941), the historical critiques of Michel Foucault, and the writings of Jean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard. It departed from the claims to […]

Practice as research, practice based research or/and practitioner researcher is a form of academic research which incorporates practice in the methodology or research output. is a methodology where artistic practice itself generates knowledge, integrating creative processes with critical reflection to explore and articulate new insights.