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Mississippi Stories in Motion: Authorship and the Construction of Meaning in a Museum-Based Movement Installation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2015
Abstract
In February of 2014, a contemporary dance company based in Jackson, Mississippi, created a movement installation within the Mississippi Museum of Art. This paper examines how words shaped the experience of the participant-researcher as a docent spoke over the performers, as the dancers physically responded to words spoken by spectators, and as the performers recited text found on the museum walls. Through a process of critical reflection, the author considers how the presence of text within the museum performance space functioned to create meaning and to awaken the awareness of the performers and spectators.
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