Making Traces, MFA Thesis

Abstract: The last decades’ development of the seemingly ever-expanding field of choreography has paved the way for multiple methods, forms, and processes to exist within its frame. The aim with the project Making Traces was to transform my own choreographic practice from professional skillset to interhuman, communicative device. Utilizing the potential for discovery possible in the interdisciplinary approach, I developed a dialogical method of embodied listening to interact with my artistic practices of writing and photography. I asked myself which movements reside in our bodies, and which ones can be materialized with the help of dialogue, imagination, and remembrance. Making Traces is an example of work which, alongside an array of other methods and forms residing in the choreographic field today, resists categorization and helps paving the way for yet unknown artistic processes to enter the scene.