The Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics & Performance (CKP), University of Kent, invite you to a Research Seminar with:
Jeff Friedman (Rutgers), 'Jan Patochka: Oral History, Hermeneutics and Heidegger’s Temporality'
Wednesday 20th May 2015, 5.00-6.30pm in Jarman Studio 1
The presentation presents some of my early thoughts on how philosophers Martin Heidegger, Jan Patochka and Elliott Jaques offer a conceptual framework for addressing temporality in oral history practice. Heidegger relies on a mysteriously disembodied argument for practice as existence; Patochka provides a framework for his concept of “quasi-time”; and Jaques suggests a re-framing of time and space as “figure” and “field” perceptual categories. These themes provide a jumping-off point toward my recent trajectory about the intersections among intention, movement, time and dance practice.
Jeff Friedman is Associate Professor of Dance Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. As a practicing dance artist, Jeff performed throughout the U.S. and abroad from 1980-1997, as part of the experimental dance company Oberlin Dance Collective (ODC). His doctoral research focused on a Labanalysis of nonverbal communication in video-recorded life-history oral interviews with dance artists from the Twyla Tharp Dance Company. Jeff has been a Fulbright Fellow in Frankfurt, Germany; a visiting lecturer at Auckland University, New Zealand; and guest lecturer at Bournemouth, Coventry and Surrey Universities, UK; Calgary and Ottawa Universities, Canada; Warsaw University, Poland; Victoria University, NZ; and Leipzig and Giessen Universities, Germany. His publications include book chapters for Routledge, Palgrave and Oxford University Presses, and journal articles for The Korean Dance Society, University of Barcelona and Oral History Review (U.S.), among others.
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