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.
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.
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
Picketts The Crucible (2019)
4. If you dont keep it open, you close: Crystal Pite and Jonathon Youngs
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 Todays World: Three Modes of Contemporary
Choreographic Practice
8. Gagas 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
Os 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
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.
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