Contemporary Choreography (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Reader
Redaktion: Butterworth, Jo; Hunter, Vicky

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040494264
• Artikelnr.: 76224162

Autorenporträt

Jo Butterworth was previously Professor of Dance Studies at the University of Malta. Vicky Hunter is a practitioner-researcher and Visiting Research Fellow in Site Dance at Bath Spa University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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'