Maxx Passion
Master of Fine Arts, 2014
University of Michigan
School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Department of Dance
it all lives here (for now)
pre-made/re-made
April 21-26 2014
12-6pm Daily
The Duderstadt Gallery
pre-made/re-made set out to experiment with an audience’s expectation of both the dance making processes and the presentation of dance by showing work that is in a finished, but not terminal, state of completion. This project posed the question, “Can the product be the process and the process be the product?” pre-made/re-made was composed of three sections that were each created using a different dance making technique. Each could have existed as a solo work, but pre-made/re-made was a presentation of the process of making a work, rather than the presentation of the work. Although the installation no longer exists in the Duderstadt Gallery, each element of pre-made/re-made has the potential to be presented elsewhere with any number of new elements added, rearranged, and expanded upon by a different group of artists in a different space. The premiere iteration of the installation was free and open to the public at the Duderstadt Gallery April 21st-26th, 2014.
THESIS COMMITTEE:
Christian Matijas Mecca (Chair)
Associate Professor of Dance and Music, Department of Dance,
University of Michigan
Amy Chavasse, Associate Professor, Department of Dance,
University of Michigan
Melanie Yergeau, Assistant Professor, Department of English,
University of Michigan
A thesis presentation, paper, and website submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Dance at the University of Michigan.