Department or Program
Theater and Dance
Abstract
This study expands and reflects upon creating and producing My Love is Like Eternity,
my original durational performance. The work, which premiered February 12-13, 2025, infused choreography, video, improvisation, costume, scenic design, and text. In this paper, I discuss my creative research in conversation with the works of artists and scholars Faye Driscoll, Kitty Winslow, MP Landis, Tristan Koepke, Diana Taylor, Max Kozloff, and Miguel Gutierrez. Throughout, I investigate choreographic themes of duration, nature’s cyclical existence, liveness, and decay. I employ performance theories and practices to critique Western culture’s binary of life and death and instead propose ideas of cycle and regeneration. I also discuss more broadly
my choreographic process, including the specific challenges and successes of working in a multimedia form. Combining narrative with rehearsal documentation and drawn images, I demonstrate the multilayered process of imagining and building an immersive performance. Additionally, I expand on various choreographic devices my collaborators and I utilized as we experimented with subtraction and abstraction to conjure hazy and ephemeral movement architecture. Lastly, I examine the culmination of this research, reflecting on the bodily and emotional experience of performing My Love is Like Eternity and discussing ongoing choreographic inquiries.
Level of Access
Open Access
First Advisor
Koepke, Tristan
Date of Graduation
5-2025
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Recommended Citation
Buczkowski, Lola, "My Love is Like Eternity: A Process in Choreography and Immersive Performance" (2025). Honors Theses. 481.
https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses/481
Number of Pages
59
Components of Thesis
1 pdf file, 1 png, 1 mp4
