Contemporary Choreography : A Critical Reader (Hardcover, 3 ed)

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

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Section 3.?Choreography, Politics and Power

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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

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Section 4.?Choreography and Interdisciplinary Arts Practice

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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

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Section 5.?Technology, Transmission and Immersion

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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

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Section 6.?Choreographic Environments and Interventions

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26.??Navigating Diasporic ‘Third Spaces’ and (New) Borderlands through Dance and Choreography

27.??Dancing Places: Sites, Situations, and Taking-Place

28.??Sensoriagrafia 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’