ABSTRACT

‘Dancing Glass: Reflection of Art through Dance’ was a collaborative project using artwork from the glass gallery at the Lowe Art Museum of the University of Miami, as a springboard for artistic inquiry in improvisational dance. Students enrolled in a Dance Improvisation course, guided by professors Carol Kaminsky and Jorge L. Morejón in order to create dance pieces based on the exploration of shape, line, design, and symbolism of glass art. Several works of art were identified for this project which allowed a moving dialogue based on authentic and aesthetic responses. Students’ generated movement, combined with sound, photo, film, and written responses, resulted in themes that emerged from their personal connection to the art. However, the course was just the frame for a bigger research project whose objective was to find out whether glass sculptures influenced creativity in dance improvisation, and how creativity, in turn, affected the students’ self-esteem and self-confidence. The performance, along with their journal entries, the audience surveys and their personality measurement assessments brought the semester to a successful closure as students gained in self-esteem and self-confidence through dance improvisation.

摘要

'Dancing Glass: Reflection of Art through Dance' 是一个合作项目，使用迈阿密大学洛威艺术博物馆玻璃画廊的艺术品作为即兴舞蹈艺术探究的跳板。学生们参加了由 Carol Kaminsky 和 ​​Jorge L. Morejón 教授指导的即兴舞蹈课程，目的是根据对玻璃艺术的形状、线条、设计和象征意义的探索来创作舞蹈作品。为这个项目确定了几件艺术作品，这使得基于真实和审美反应的动人对话成为可能。学生产生的动作，结合声音、照片、电影和书面反应，产生了从他们与艺术的个人联系中出现的主题。然而，该课程只是一个更大的研究项目的框架，其目的是找出玻璃雕塑是否影响了即兴舞蹈的创造力，以及创造力如何反过来影响学生的自尊和自信。随着学生通过即兴舞蹈获得自尊和自信，表演以及他们的日记条目、观众调查和他们的性格测量评估使本学期圆满结束。