3. Denise McKay (a.k.a Denny, Den,
Mum, Grandma)
Background Facts:
• 2001- Dancer in the Burlington Footnotes: Jazz,
Tap and Clogging
• 2002- Became the Company’s set designer
• 2003-2004 Wrote a pair of ambitious scripts for
the dance company’s performances
• 2004-2009 Created a Narrative Dancing Clown
group for the Company
• 2005-2008 Member of the BFSPT Board
• 2005 - Went to Japan as one of twelve dancers
with the Company
• 2008 - Became one of three costume designers
for the Company
4. Lab Equipment Used
• Unknown to Mum, she has been wearing a
hidden Biometric combination telemetry GPS-
based monitor, that has allowed our Engineers
to study Mum’s behaviour for many years.
5.
6. Observation: The Art Cycle
Inspiration
& Dreams
Been there Initial
done that Learning
– Need by Doing-
new outlet it-yourself
A master
among
School Don’t Like
your
contempor. School
Years of
getting it
right
9. Observation: Physics of Creativity
Forces
Internal Creative Forces building External View of Resolved Forces
up Taking Place
Negative
A Compromise is
Energy is
Assumed
Released
Mum’s Rosemaries’
Mum’s Rosemarie’s Assumptions Go Assumptions
Opinions Opinions Left Go Right
10.
11. How she did get this way? Hypothesis:
Lived Unusual
Born in
near Lead Creative
Trail BC
Smelter Ability
12. Derived: Chaos Theory for Dancers
?
From an Orderly System To a Chaotic System
Dancer
Dancer 3**
1*
Dancer 4**
Dancer
2*
Dancer 3*
Dancer 5**
* Consistently Attended Rehearsals ** Skipped Rehearsals to Watch D with the S
13. Reverse Chaos Theory for Dancers
From the Chaotic System Back to an Orderly System
Dancer 2** Dancer
1*
Dancer 3** Dancer
2*
Dancer 3*
Dancer 1**
** Acting as if nothing is out of the norm * Lucky thing the audience doesn’t
know the difference