Stefania Mylona
Stefania Mylona is an artist and scholar in performance dance. On a scholarship awarded from I.K.Y. She completed an MA at Laban and a practice-based PhD in performance dance at the University of Surrey that examined visual dramaturgies in dance. She received the Glynne Wickham Award from SCUDD and the Award from SDHS and she is an associate of the British Higher Education Academy. She has taught dance in Athens and in London. She is a member of Performance Philosophy and with its association founded Performance Philosophy School of Athens, a two-day symposium that has held two events (E.D.W. and EMST). She has been published by Performance Research Journal and Theatre Topics amongst others.
Abstracts
Dancing Sculptures: Contractions of an intercorporeal aesthetic
PhD University of Surrey
The research applied and explored the Deleuzian concept of the assemblage in performance dance by creating dancing sculptures, assemblages of two or more performers in close bodily contact that moved together through space. The thesis argued for visual dramaturgies in dance as a meeting point between dance and performance. The thesis contains four chapters: The first chapter addresses the modern dance histories of contraction. Chapter two focuses on the contractile processes of Dancing Sculptures. The relationship between dance and visual art is examined in chapter three. The fourth chapter offers an evaluation of interdisciplinary approaches as primarily body-based and argues for intercorporeality within and beyond dance studies.
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Αrtist, scholar in performance dance |
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PhD |
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