Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader
- Editor: Butterworth, Jo
- Editor: Hunter, Vicky
Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader
- Editor: Butterworth, Jo
- Editor: Hunter, Vicky
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Fully revised and updated, this third edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into creative processes, and innovative challenges to understandings about dance-making.
Contributions from a global range of practitioners and researchers address a spectrum of concerns in the field, organised into six broad domains:
- Processes of making
- Culture, contexts and intersections
- Choreography, politics and power
- Choreography and interdisciplinary arts practice
- Technology, transmission and immersion
- Choreographic environments and interventions
Including 24 new chapters and six updated ones, Contemporary Choreography captures the essence and progress of choreography in the third decade of the twenty-first century, supporting and encouraging rigorous thinking and research for future generations of dance practitioners and scholars.
Contents
- General
- Introduction Studying contemporary choreography
- Section 1 . Processes of Making Section
- Introduction
- 1. Choreography through a Somatic Lens
- 2. Dancing identities: How dancers’ embodied knowledge underscores creative methods in contemporary dancemaking
- 3. ‘Finding the light’: Curiosity, texts and contemporary ballet in Helen Pickett’s The Crucible (2019)
- 4. “If you don’t keep it open, you close”: Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s Betroffenheit (2017) and the emotional and psychological implications of theatre dance
- 5. Creating Future Memories, NOW: FORWARD DANCE COMPANY by LOFFT - DAS THEATER and the reimagining of disability, diversity, and cultural memory
- Section 2 . Culture, Contexts and Intersections Section
- Introduction
- 6. Maybe You Could Close Your Eyes While I Dance: Age, Ageing, and in/visibility as choreographic drivers in Acting our Age
- 7. Recomposing Thai Dance for Today’s World: Three Modes of Contemporary Choreographic Practice
- 8. Gaga’s Aspirational Politics: Passepartout Bodies and Choreographic Passports
- 9. Dancing Culture, Talking Global
- 10. Choreography in Ghana: evolving methods and techniques
- 11. Choreography as Research: Iteration, Object, Context
- Section 3 . Choreography, Politics and Power Section
- Introduction
- 12. Vulnerable practice: Thinking through discomfort and precarity in Project O’s Voodoo (2017)
- 13. Dancing Simply together: an example transdisciplinary research in arts and sciences
- 14. Prize-winning dances; choreography and the competition stage
- 15. Multifarious identity: Barbardian street dance on the concert stage
- 16. Moving into Action: change-making through dance activism
- Section 4 . Choreography and Interdisciplinary Arts Practice Section
- Introduction
- 17. Choreography as a practice of border crossing: ten insights into embracing the impossible in interdisciplinary dance practice
- 18. HOMECOMING
- 19. Beyond Dancing: The Choreographic Turn in the 2022 Taiwan Arts Biennial
- 20. Dance in the Museum
- 21. From Improvements to Care: gardening as choreographic dwelling
- Section 5 . Technology, Transmission and Immersion Section
- Introduction
- 22. Unlocking Touch
- 23. Virtual Reality and Dance-Making: unbounding choreographic practice from the realm of real-time performance
- 24. Social Media and Choreographic Practice: Tools for collaboration, co-creation and creative practice
- 25. Shifts in Embodiment: Choreographic practice for Virtual Reality
- Section 6 . Choreographic Environments and Interventions Section
- Introduction
- 26. Navigating Diasporic ‘Third Spaces’ and (New) Borderlands through Dance and Choreography
- 27. Dancing Places: Sites, Situations, and Taking-Place
- 28. Sensóriagrafia in Public Spaces: Dance and words as a relational sensory, poetic intervention
- 29. A Reservoir of Gestures, or Choreography is Relational
- 30. Unlocking Liberation: Choreographing the ‘Club State’
