Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice
- Editor: Blades, Hetty
- Editor: Meehan, Emma
Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice
- Editor: Blades, Hetty
- Editor: Meehan, Emma
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Increasingly, choreographic process is examined, shared and discussed in a variety of academic, artistic and performative contexts. More than ever before, post-show discussions, artistic blogs, books, archives and seminars provide opportunities for choreographers to explain their particular methodologies. Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice provides a unique theoretical investigation of this current trend. The chapters in this collection examine the methods, politics and philosophy of sharing choreographic process, aiming to uncover theoretical repercussions of and the implications for forms of knowledge, the appreciation of dance, education and artistic practices.
Contents
- Introduction - Hetty Blades and Emma Meehan
- Part 1: Philosophy of Process
- Chapter 1: Atomos EChOs and the Process-ing of Dances - Stephanie Jordan and Anna Pakes
- Chapter 2: Choreographic Knowledge and Aesthetic Empiricism - Hetty Blades
- Part 2: Methods and Formats
- Chapter 3: Enhancing Choreographic Objects: Traces, Texts and Tales of a Journey through Dance - Sarah Whatley
- Chapter 4: Research as Co-Habitation: Experimental Composition across Theory and Practice - Erin Brannigan, Matthew Day and Lizzie Thomson
- Chapter 5: Process as Performance or Variations of Swinging - Annette Arlander
- Chapter 6: Crystallisations, Constellations and Sharings: Exploring Somatic Process with Sandra Reeve - Emma Meehan
- Part 3: Documentation, Dissemination and Scores
- Chapter 7: Exploring Creative Thought in Choreography Together: Process Documentation with the Australian Dance Theatre - Scott deLahunta, Jordan Beth Vincent, Elizabeth Old, Garry Stewart, James Leach and Catherine J. Stevens
- Chapter 8: Architectural and Choreographic Diagrams as Processual Modes of Sharing Creative Practices - Ariadne Mikou
- Chapter 9: Dancing on the Page/Writing on the Stage: Sharing Dance (and) Theatre Process Documents - The Drawings of Jan Fabre - Edith Cassiers
- Chapter 10: Animating the Archive: Voguing, Sampling and Queering Tatsumi Hijikata - Sara Jansen
- Part 4: Politics and Labour
- Chapter 11: The 'Visible Choreographer': Trust and Power, Reviewing Choreography as a Social Practice - Kathinka Walter-Hoeg
- Chapter 12: The Use of Uselessness - Claudia Kappenberg
- Chapter 13: Resisting Explanation: The Politics of Audience Development and Possibilities of Form - Nicola Conibere
- Contributors
- Index
