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.
Cuprins
Introduction – Hetty Blades and Emma Meehan
Part 1: Philosophy of Process
Chapter 1: Atomos ECh Os 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 de Lahunta, 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-Høeg
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
Despre autor
Dr Hetty Blades is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Dance Research (C-Da RE) at Coventry University. Her research considers philosophical questions posed by the making and transmission of dance works and practices. Recent edited books include, Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practices with Emma Meehan (2018, Intellect) and Dance, Disability and Law: In Visible Difference with Sarah Whatley, Charlotte Waelde, Shawn Harmon, Abbe Brown and Karen Wood (2018, Intellect). She worked as an Research Assistant on Resilience and Inclusion: Dancers as Agents of Change (AHRC) and was Co-Investigator on Performing Empowerment: Disability, Dance and Inclusive Development in Post-War Sri Lanka (AHRC/ESRC). She is currently Co-I on Performing Inclusion (British Council Sri Lanka).