Papers by Elizabeth de Roza
This thesis proposes an embodied performance practice that is simultaneously decolonised and cros... more This thesis proposes an embodied performance practice that is simultaneously decolonised and cross-cultural. It articulates the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction between/within/in-between the multiplicities of cultural memory, moving beyond an east-west binary and instead embedding itself in the multi-cultural heritage of a postcolonial Singapore female other/ed body. I will engage in an embodied practice research methodology to articulate how the contemporary post-colonial performance body is shaped by the layers of cross-cultural considerations and concerns. Through the research, I will explore how embodied memory and history is buried deep within the individual and responds to cultural context. The research attempts to formulate and articulate a decolonised cross-cultural performance methodology specific to my own practice as a female Singaporean Eurasian performance maker. My research is onto-epistemological, as the focus is on the body as the material, and employs an embodied research methodology. The research is interwoven with an intersection of theoretical frameworks from phenomenology into somaesthetics, and includes both postcolonial and feminist theories, furthering the debate on cross-culturalism. I also propose that my methodology of soft fireworks can contribute to the emerging field of embodied research and is relevant to the current debate on cross-cultural performance practice. I have introduced bodycultures in my research, to recognise how the socio-cultural body influences the performing body, and that this affects how a postcolonial female other/ed body is perceived and received on stage. To articulate the emerging field of embodied research, I have chosen to engage in a practice that combines the frameworks of kalaripayyatu (an ancient South Indian martial arts) as a pre-preparatory tool for the rehearsal process, and an amalgamation of cross-cultural performance practices I have termed soft fireworks. Through these practices I devised two new cross-cultural collaborative performances: a [...]
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Journal of embodied research, Mar 28, 2018
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Volume 21, 2022
This perspective analyses and reflects upon the experience of conceiving, curating and participat... more This perspective analyses and reflects upon the experience of conceiving, curating and participating in Bodies:On:Live – Magdalena:On:Line, the first online multi-platform Magdalena Festival, bringing together digitally competent artists with creative roots in the immateriality of the internet, in dialogue about current shifts in performance making with performers, writers, and directors declaring their uneasiness towards online adaptations of live work. As part of the global reaction to the standstill brought about by the Covid pandemic, we argue that shifts in practice for women in contemporary theatre associated with the Magdalena network – whether as an attempt for immediate artistic survival or a conscious experimental choice – were not exclusively determined by the available sharing of technical knowledge, or by the need to increase awareness of the digital medium in order to gain experience of different working modalities, but served a participatory and social purpose. These ...
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This thesis proposes an embodied performance practice that is simultaneously decolonised and cros... more This thesis proposes an embodied performance practice that is simultaneously decolonised and cross-cultural. It articulates the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction between/within/in-between the multiplicities of cultural memory, moving beyond an east-west binary and instead embedding itself in the multi-cultural heritage of a postcolonial Singapore female other/ed body. I will engage in an embodied practice research methodology to articulate how the contemporary post-colonial performance body is shaped by the layers of cross-cultural considerations and concerns. Through the research, I will explore how embodied memory and history is buried deep within the individual and responds to cultural context. The research attempts to formulate and articulate a decolonised cross-cultural performance methodology specific to my own practice as a female Singaporean Eurasian performance maker. My research is onto-epistemological, as the focus is on the body as the material, and employs an embod...
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We are at a point in history in which bodies are linked in truly unprecedented ways. There are ne... more We are at a point in history in which bodies are linked in truly unprecedented ways. There are new types of limitations, new opportunities, and also new kinds of violence taking place through these connections. It is a lot to take in and very challenging to grasp as it unfolds. In this editorial video essay, the editors of the Journal of Embodied Research’s special issue on “embodiment and social distancing” introduce the fifteen video essays that follow.
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