Undergraduate Honors Thesis

 

Please Hold; it's Relative Public Deposited

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  • Examining the dynamic differences between anticipation and waiting, I hope to utilize dance and its ephemerality to discover more about the thought processes behind future thinking and how to move more easily through the individual states of thought. Therefore, I created a body-based live performance titled, Please Hold; it’s Relative, to dive deeper into the physically and emotional manifestations of waiting and anticipating. Waiting is stillness, whereas anticipation is a mental state of preparing for something. They are both forms of future thinking. However, waiting is an action while anticipating is a feeling. Through different production elements, rehearsal process, choreography, lighting and sound, I uncovered how waiting and anticipating manifest differently in the body. Waiting brings a sense of peace, familiarity, and consistency. Anticipating brings anxiety, stress, feelings of confinement, a heavy feeling, surprise, ambiguity and a rigidness. Therefore, when one can achieve waiting without the feeling of anticipation they are able to find a calmness within their body.
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  • 2017-01-01
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  • 2019-12-02
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