URCAD Selfie Contest Winner: Michaela Emmerich

Mon, 09 May 2022 11:20:17 -0400

Congratulations to URCAD presenter Michaela Emmerich, winner of the URCAD Selfie Contest in the category: Best "Making of" an URCAD Presentation!

She will receive a $100 gift card to the UMBC Bookstore!

The photo was taken during the dress rehearsal for Michaela's URCAD performance, “Under This Roof”- Examining the Effect of Power Imbalances in A Family Dynamic Through Choreographic Processes"

Mentor: Ann Sofie Clemmensen, Dance

Abstract:

This creative investigation explores to what degree narrative and gesture based choreographic devices can be used compositionally to examine and bring awareness to the gray area in relationships affected by power imbalance. The gray area is a state in which someone involved struggles to determine what constitutes right and wrong, leading to inner conflict and confusion. My work will be examining traditional values as justification for abuse of power, and the navigation of extreme high and low emotional states caused by power imbalance in relationship structures. Negative impacts can be felt in romantic or non-romantic relationships structured by values of love or relation. The objective for the work, and the specific use of gestures and narrative-based movement, is to create a visual experience of grayness that will generate conversation around what grayness is, how to recognize it, and what to do about it.

This work was funded, in part, through an Undergraduate Research Award from the UMBC Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs.

Congratulations, Michaela!