Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader

Contents

• Contents
• List of tables and illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• General introduction
• Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut
• SECTION 1 Conceptual and philosophical concerns
• Section introduction
• Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut
• 1.1
• Knowing through dance-making
• Choreography, practical knowledge and practice-as-research
• Anna Pakes
• 1.2
• Expert-intuitive and deliberate processes
• Struggles in (the wording of) creative decision-making in 'dance'
• Susan Melrose
• 1.3
• 'Throwing like a girl'?
• Gender in a transnational world
• Susan Leigh Foster
• 1.4
• Choreography that poses problems
• Bojana Cvejic
• 1.5
• Choreography as research
• Iteration, object, context
• Ben Spatz
• SECTION 2 Processes of making
• Section introduction
• Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut
• 2.6
• Too many cooks?
• A framework for dance making and devising
• Jo Butterworth
• 2.7
• Facilitating choreographic process
• Larry Lavender
• 2.8
• Velvet Petal: Getting Lost
• Fleur Darkin
• 2.9
• Risk-taking and group dance improvisation
• Joao da Silva
• 2.10
• Dancing strategies and moving identities
• The contributions independent contemporary dancers make to the choreographic process
• Jenny Roche
• 2.11
• Jonathan Burrows' Postdance Conference keynote address, Stockholm 2015
• Jonathan Burrows
• INTERVENTION
• Peggy Olislaegers
• SECTION 3 Dance dramaturgy: structures, relationships, contexts
• Section introduction
• Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut
• 3.12
• Dance dramaturgical agency
• Pil Hansen
• 3.13
• The catalytic function of dramaturgy
• Working on actions in choreographic processes
• Konstantina Georgelou, Efrosini Protopapa, and Danae Theodoridou
• 3.14
• Decentred dramaturgy
• Non-structural contexts in contemporary choreography
• Anny Mokotow
• SECTION 4 Choreographic environments
• Section introduction
• Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut
• 4.15
• Dancing around exclusion
• An examination of the issues of social inclusion within choreographic practice in the community
• Sara Houston
• 4.16
• Choreographic approaches in the community context
• Diane Amans
• 4.17
• Escola Livre de Danca da Mare in Rio de Janeiro
• A ground to share
• Silvia Soter and Adriana Pavlova
• 4.18
• Experiencing space
• Some implications for site-specific dance performance
• Victoria Hunter
• 4.19
• Whispering Birds
• Site-specific dance, affect and emotion
• Karen N Barbour
• SECTION 5 Cultural and Intercultural Contexts
• Section introduction
• Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut
• 5.20
• Principles of African choreography
• Some perspectives from Ghana
• Francis Nii-Yarty
• 5.21
• The body as a site of power
• An artistic case study on contemporary choreography in the Arab World
• Sandra Noeth and Samar Haddad King
• 5.22
• Beyond the intercultural to the Accented Body
• An Australian perspective
• Cheryl Stock
• 5.23
• Minority visibility and hip hop choreography: France 2015
• Felicia McCarren
• 5.24
• Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan
• Intertwined journeys in-between dance cultures
• Guy Cools
• 5.25
• Akram Khan on the politics of choreographing touch
• Royona Mitra
• SECTION 6 Challenging Aesthetics
• Section introduction
• Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut
• 6.26
• In search of Asian modernity
• Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's body aesthetics in the era of globalisation
• Ya-Ping Chen
• 6.27
• The body as the stage of abstract space
• Sculpting of spectatorship in Meg Stuart's choreography
• Jeroen Fabius
• 6.28
• Hi, who are you?
• On choreography and the aged dancer
• Efva Lilja
• 6.29
• Inclusive choreography
• Lucy Bennett and Stopgap Dance Company
• Sho Shibata
• SECTION 7 Choreographic Relationships with Technology
• Section introduction
• Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut
• 7.30
• Choreographic performance systems
• Johannes Birringer
• 7.31
• Virtually touching
• Embodied engagement in telematic and virtual reality performance
• Sita Popat
• 7.32
• How does motion capture mediate dance?
• Laura Karreman
• 7.33
• Social media and choreographic practice
• Creative tools for collaboration, co-creation and creative practice
• Sophy Smith