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Item To be moved(2022-05-04) Hart, Andrea L.; Habeck, Michelle M.; Sanchez, KJ; Bassett Shaw, AlexandraIn this thesis I will examine how I use movement in theatre with the goal of moving the audience emotionally. I will point to the ways I scaffold and build a process that draws from many other practices of physical theatre and remixes them into my unique approach. I will describe how I use ensemble and physical theatre techniques to stage work that generates deep engagement, builds community, and allows for catharsis for both performer and audience. Through looking at my work on several projects at UT, I will show how interacting physically with the actors, audience, and design elements creates connection and expounds on textual and subtextual themes. I will explore physicality on stage from multiple angles. With Ownerless Beasts the audience enacted the physicality as a way of deepening their personal connection and relevance to the text. In Wyeth Airlines and Meek, the actors’ physicality on stage and their interaction with moving design elements conveyed interstitial story elements and character interiority. Murky as Hell uses explicit, extreme physicality including fight and dance choreography to appeal to the audience on an instinctual level and to elicit crowd responses typical to sporting events. With each of these projects, I will describe the function of movement in the piece and seek to assess the effectiveness of that movement as a technique toward emotional responses in the audience. This assessment will allow me to discover areas for revision and improvement in future iterations of these pieces or new work I create. Ultimately, I intend to use this exploration of my craft to codify my rehearsal and staging practices and formalize my approach for future work in the field.Item Visceral design : experiments in creating the uncanny for live performance(2017-06-28) Hohn, Erica Lucinda; Mickey, Susan E.; Isackes, Richard M.; Sanchez, Karen J.Fear is a powerful, unifying emotional experience. Art that stimulates a fear response in its audience is popular as a cathartic form and a powerful metaphor across a wide selection of media. What is the value of fear, anxiety and/or disquietude in a theatrical setting? How do we cause it? And what kinds of stories does it help tell? This project and paper explore potential answers through research and experimentation in design for live performance. This thesis examines the theory behind, worth of and potential methods for making uncanny theatre. It documents a series of five theatrical experiments developed and performed between the Fall of 2015 and the Spring of 2017 in the Department of Theatre and Dance. These experiments sought to make effective pieces of creepy theatre and to develop methodologies for doing so. This thesis also looks at films and plays that use the horror genre or the uncanny to tell stories about challenging topics like racism, difficult family dynamics, sexual abuse and individual private anxieties. It analyzes some of the ways these works create a sense of dread, what works and doesn’t work for them, and the value of the horror genre to the story. The goals of this project were twofold. First, to make engaging and effective pieces of uncanny theatre. And second, to provide information and insight about what works and doesn’t work to other theatre makers using disquietude and the uncanny in their own projects.