Rachel Sweeney's research while affiliated with Liverpool Hope University and other places

Publication (1)

Article
'Tracking entities' is a cartographic essay that takes the idea of topographic exchange between place and body, exploring the relationship between sense, perception and corporeal memory. Underlying an enquiry into developing movement vocabulary in response to a particular terrain, the terms 'proprioception', 'perception' and 'perspective' are exami...

Citations

... Choreography, according to Fensham and Kelada is seen as a return (rather than a turn), a repeat, an ordering and organizing of movement and gesture. For Sweeney (2011) choreography occurs perceptually by the dancer as a series of sensations the body experiences as it takes different positions and experiences "temperature conditions, olfactory and textural data as well as sonic and visual information, all of which can be said to trigger their own immediate stimuli for further movement" (p. 70). ...