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Title
Centre of the storm : in search of an Australian feminist spirituality through performance-ritual
Creator
Rups-Eyland, Annette Maie;   University of Western Sydney;   College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences;   School of Social Ecology and Lifelong Learning;  
Subject
performance art;   feminist spirituality;   experimental theatre;   feminism and the arts;  
Date
2002
Description
The outward form of the text in which the spiritual search is housed is 'performance-ritual', that is, performed 'ritual'. This genre has its 'performance' roots in the dance pioneers and its 'ritual' roots in the Christian church. The contents of this performed text is influenced by an emerging ecofeminist consciousness. In this way, the thesis has a grassroots inspiration as well as crossing academic areas of performance studies, ritual studies, and feminist spirituality. The project begins by an examination of 20th Century feminist and ecofeminist writing on spirituality, which evokes the subjective, embodied and historically contextualised, with particular focus on body and nature. Additional concepts of place, holding and letting go are introduced. Particular performance-rituals are introduced under the overall heading 'the spiralling journey of exorcism and ecstacy'. They include earlier work, as well as work performed specifically for this thesis, Centre of the Storm. The study re-situates 'ritual' as a subjective, embodied and contextualised performed event. It challenges ritual discourse to incorporate 'spirit', and feminist spirituality to incorporate the material world, through 'place', 'family', and the ritual actions of 'holding' and 'letting go'.
Description
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Identifier
uws:771
  
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http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/771
  
Language
eng
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