Research & Practice
As a movement practitioner I am exploring the below lines of inquiry:
Finding Muscle in Movement
This practice utilises resistance bands in an effort to enable performers to “find muscle in movement”.
Evolving Physical Metaphors through Music
A guided image-based explorative exercise that places music as the third stimulus to evolve and clarify the physical metaphor.
Constructing Character Physicality through Asymmetry
Approaching physical transformation through an understanding of biomechanics and the body’s asymmetries.
My practice continues to manifest into an accessible pedagogy which I hope to eventually document within a doctoral study. The methodology should enable and advance the actor’s physical vocabulary, presence and clarity.
I am interested in practicing this research further within open workshops, vocational training institutions as well as on a 1:1 basis. Please contact me via email if you are interested in discussing this further: marcianomovement@gmail.com
Photo credits: Will Elsom & Johan persson(Unpublished Master of Art Thesis)
Department of Dance, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. September 2022
This research drew from the form of Stand-Up Comedy, practices such as Laughter Yoga, Skinner Releasing Technique as well as philosophical theories of humour and scientific evidence to prove the immediate connection that laughter can evoke between two parties.
My thesis eventually evolved into the argument that “we can employ this intersection of forms [stand-up and dance] to cultivate a more active audience within the contemporary dance genre.” Further speculating that “a more active audience within presentations of, what some might consider more elitist art forms, will increase the efficacy of political and social discourse across the performance space.”
Nature of Forgetting (2024) photo credit: Beijing National Performing Arts Centre 