Fine Arts and Music Collected Works - Theses

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    Pink God: An Ecstatic Communion of Choreography
    Adams, Phillip ( 2022)
    This doctorate serves as a reflexive autobiography to expose a theatrical dynamism of a quixotic choreographer. Through a monotheistic gaze it strives towards queer philosophical introspection. Its investigation of personal Christian indoctrination (as a source of creative subjectivity) works through allegorical imagination, and themes of devotion, holiness, and transformation. What emerges is a twenty five-year interdisciplinary choreographic practice, a polymorphous interaction of multiple art forms, in which ‘learnt and unlearnt obedient and disobedient bodies’ reveal the philosophical underpinnings of my works’ social, religious, queer, cinematic, absurdist, historical and phenomenological experimentations. The DVPA traces the spaces that I have explored in creating my vision of the stage as an altar; a place for my work to serve a queer and non-queer community in lieu of (a) God but armed with the intention to be an artist in search of the divine. To this, I find in the dance, the dancers, staged objects and paraphernalia, an interdisciplinary adulation to the neo-baroque — a queer aesthetic to which I remain transfixed, and that insures my immaturity. To grow via this research is an ambition, but to remain in the childlike world of wonder and possibility is a necessary tonic to the sensible. The works presented below demonstrate my attempts to parody religion and cinema, which I refer to in this doctorate as Hollywood Blockbusters of Religious Catatonia — and that I use to interpret my own spectacles of the exaggerated and the absurd. My desire to deconstruct learned steppage of dance: ballet, court dance, contemporary, or jazz, is not as a rebuke to those styles but a means to innovate a dance vocabulary to express a vision of a queer empowered mythology-cum-reality. To this end, my writing demonstrates how a queering aesthetic remain the dominant partnership in my practice.