Jonathan Burrows

A Choreographer's Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On choreography: 'Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.'

On rules: 'Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis.'

The updated and revised edition of 'A Choreographer's Handbook' invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, questions, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned choreographer Jonathan Burrows explains how it's possible to navigate a course through this complex process.

It is a stunning reflection on a personal practice and professional journey, and draws upon many years of workshop discussions, led by Burrows.

Burrows' open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of principles, exercises, meditations and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process.

It is a book for anyone interested in making performance, at whatever level and in whichever style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040156834
• Artikelnr.: 72277041

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Burrows is a choreographer, teacher and writer, whose work has been invited widely internationally. He is best known for an ongoing body of work with the composer Matteo Fargion, with whom he has collaborated for over 30 years. He is the author of 'A Choreographer's Handbook' (Routledge 2010) and 'Writing Dance' (2022) and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Dancing / Principles Material Habits Repetition Repetition Repetition Improvisation / Cut and paste / Choreography Form Exploration / Risk Subject / Inspiration / Stealing / Familiar movement / Referencing other sources/ Choreography / Self-expression Contract / Performance space / Language / Choreography Breaking The Rules Research / How and what? / Dramaturgy / Theory / Curiosity Interview / Unfinished business / Questions / Principles Financial limitations / Studios / Funding Applications Preparation / Rehearsal schedule / Heaviness Collaboration / Audience Originality / Paradox Technique / Parrot on your shoulder / Authenticity / Daily practice / Dancing / Style / Fiddling Virtuosity Hoarding / Beginnings Endings Keeping it going / Pacing Dub reggae / Rate of change / Simple material / Desperation Stillness and silence / Fear of being boring Minimal and maximal Does it work? / Showings / Mentoring Other bodies / States Distracting the self / Paradox / Choreography / Performance / Electric guitars Predictable and unpredictable / Expectation Narrative / Ballet / Continuity Continuity / Sectional pieces / Material / Make six things / Choreography / Flow / Relation Relation / Solos, duos, trios, quartets / Ideas Relation / Time / Rhythm Time Abstract dance Counterpoint / Formal elements / Difference Scores / Studios / Improvisation Chance / Empty hands / Gamut of movements / Limitations / Laborious work Place or space? Audience / Facing the front / Confrontation / Humour / Failure Audience Performance / Principles The marketplace / Earning a living / Administrating the work / Commissions Music / Collaboration / Silence Text Lighting / Technicians / Collaboration / Costumes / Shoes or no shoes? / Set design / Nudity Titles Filming / History / Collaboration / Mirrors / Human-scale Hierarchies / Who owns what? / Dancer or choreographer? / In it or out of it? How can I simplify all of this? Forget all this Bibliography Thanks Biography of the author Index

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Preface, 2nd edition Dancing
Principles Material Habits Repetition Repetition Repetition Improvisation
Cut and paste
Choreography Form Exploration
Risk Breaking the rules Subject
Inspiration
Stealing
Familiar movement
Choreography
Referencing other sources Research
How and what?
Dramaturgy
Theory
Curiosity Contract
Performance space Self-expression Abstract dance Interview
Unfinished business
Questions
Principles Financial limitations
Studios
Funding applications Collaboration
Audience Preparation
Meetings
Rehearsal schedule
Heaviness Originality
Ecology
Paradox Technique
Parrot on your shoulder
Authenticity
Dancing
Style
Fiddling Virtuosity Specificity Daily practice Hoarding
Beginnings Endings Keeping it going
Pacing Change
Dub reggae
Simple material
Desperation Predictable and unpredictable
Expectation Stillness and silence Minimal and maximal Solos, duos, trios, quartets Many bodies
States Parallel Voices Performance
Principles Distracting the self
Paradox
Choreography
Performance
Electric guitars Does it work?
Showings
Mentoring Narrative
Ballet
Continuity Continuity
Material
Make six things
Choreography
Flow Relation Relation
Time
Rhythm Time Counterpoint Unison Scores
Studios
Translation
Sequencing
Improvisation Chance
Empty hands
Gamut of movements
Limitations
Laborious work
Philosophy Audience
Facing the front
Facing each other
Confrontation
Humour
Failure Place or space? Audience Hierarchies
Dancer or choreographer?
In it or out of it?
Who owns what? The marketplace
Earning a living
Administrating the work
Commercial work
Commissions
Academia Music
Collaboration
Silence Text Lighting
Technicians
Collaboration
Costumes
Set design
Nudity Filming
History
Collaboration
Mirrors
Human-scale Titles How can I simplify all of this? Forget all this

Rezensionen

'it proposes clear, but simultaneously cryptic advices applicable to a broad church of performance and dance making-dilemas. Well worth ordering' - Tim Etchells, Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment

'it is a workshop in the form of a book, which aims to help choreographers and dancers in articulating and fine-tuning their own ways of working' - Jeroen Peeters, CORPUS

'it proposes clear, but simultaneously cryptic advices applicable to a broad church of performance and dance making-dilemas. Well worth ordering' - Tim Etchells, Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment

'it is a workshop in the form of a book, which aims to help choreographers and dancers in articulating and fine-tuning their own ways of working' - Jeroen Peeters, CORPUS