A Performer, Teacher and Rehearsal Director.
Collaboration
Dissertation
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Lexy’s current interests lie within the interdisciplinary performance and collaborative work between dance and other art forms, blurring the boundaries surrounding dance. Exploring other ways to experience dance as an art form and altering perceptions of the discipline.
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Having particularly enjoyed exploring collaborative practices with musicians and visual artists, this has now become an integral part of her dance identity and something she looks forward to developing as an emerging practitioner.
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This journey has led Lexy to undertake a research project which going forward will influence her performative final major project. The chosen thesis title being Reconsidering Expectations: Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Processes of Collaboration Between Dance and Visual Arts.
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If you would like to read Lexy’s dissertation, download the PDF below. Please note that this is unpublished academic writing, therefore for reference only and not for reprint.
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Dance Graduating Project
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Following my dissertation research, I wanted to explore collaboration in practice for my final major project at university. Inspired by the research practitioners and scholars uncovered when looking at hierarchies within collaboration I wanted to explore how collaboration across disciplines could change the perspective of movement for an audience.
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The outcome from this exploration was Traces: The Space In Between. which is a collaborative project between myself, a dancer, and my collaborator Rosie Buglass, a visual artist. It looks at reframing how we see movement, changing the audience’s perception and transforming both dance and visual art into a more focused hybrid. Considering terminology and qualities such as materiality and conversation as sources for improvisation and focusing on performing process rather than a something complete. Together we create prompts that instigate a growing connection between us and blur the boundaries that separate us in performance and creation. Finally, we look towards finding the place of the body within art, the place of art within the body and arriving at a place in between.
The sharing was to be an exhibition of live performance, a collection of artwork and projected animation, however, due to the global pandemic Covid-19, this sharing had to be cancelled and an alternative assessment was proposed. For this, we had to reframe our physical and visual research onto a digital portfolio that reflected on the entire process.
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If you would like to read the digital portfolio, download the PDF below. Please note that this is unpublished academic writing, therefore for reference only and not for reprint.
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