Play: ‘ideas are statements not of what is or what has been but of acts to be performed’

In this chapter I challenge the perceived divide between doing and thinking, inherited from a Western dualist divide between body and mind. I suggest playful acts of choreography to transgress the separation of physical and mental in the process of creating a theoretical framework for research study. <blockquote>Akinleye, A. (2019). Play: 'ideas are statements not of what is or what has been but of acts to be performed'. In J. Bacon, Hilton, R., Kramer, P., and Midgelow, V. (Ed.), Researching (in/as) Motion: A Resource Collection, Artistic Doctorates in Europe: Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.</blockquote> <a href="https://nivel.teak.fi/adie/play/">Visit the Publisher</a>
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In this chapter I challenge the perceived divide between doing and thinking, inherited from a Western dualist divide between body and mind. I suggest playful acts of choreography to transgress the separation of physical and mental in the process of creating a theoretical framework for research study. Using what I am calling ‘choreo-thinking’ I offer possibilities of new methodologies for meaning making beyond the static of writing at a desk.

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Citation: Akinleye, A. (2019). Play: ‘ideas are statements not of what is or what has been but of acts to be performed’. In J. Bacon, Hilton, R., Kramer, P., and Midgelow, V. (Ed.), Researching (in/as) Motion: A Resource Collection, Artistic Doctorates in Europe: Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.