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"Significantly expands the field's knowledge base in theoretical and applied ways never heard quite so succinctly before in a large, wide-ranging volume." Doug Risner, Journal of Dance Education Jo Butterworth is Professor of Dance Studies at the University of Malta. Liesbeth Wildschut lectures in dance history, dance theory, and dance dramaturgy at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Klappentext Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and innovative challenges to traditional understandings of dance making.Contributions from a global range of practitioners and researchers address a spectrum of concerns in the field, organized into seven broad domains:Conceptual and philosophical concernsProcesses of makingDance dramaturgy: structures, relationships, contextsChoreographic environmentsCultural and intercultural contextsChallenging aestheticsChoreographic relationships with technology.Including 23 new chapters and 10 updated ones, Contemporary Choreography captures the essence and progress of choreography in the twenty-first century, supporting and encouraging rigorous thinking and research for future generations of dance practitioners and scholars. Zusammenfassung Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and innovative challenges to traditional understandings of dance making. Contributions from a global range of practitioners and researchers address a spectrum of concerns in the field, organized into seven broad domains: Conceptual and philosophical concerns Processes of making Dance dramaturgy: structures, relationships, contexts Choreographic environments Cultural and intercultural contexts Challenging aesthetics Choreographic relationships with technology. Including 23 new chapters and 10 updated ones, Contemporary Choreography captures the essence and progress of choreography in the twenty-first century, supporting and encouraging rigorous thinking and research for future generations of dance practitioners and scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis General introduction Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut SECTION 1 Conceptual and philosophical concerns Section introduction Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut 1.1 Knowing through dance-making Choreography, practical knowledge and practice-as-research Anna Pakes 1.2 Expert-intuitive and deliberate processes Struggles in (the wording of) creative decision-making in ‘dance’ Susan Melrose 1.3 ‘Throwing like a girl’? Gender in a transnational world Susan Leigh Foster 1.4 Choreography that poses problems Bojana Cvejic 1.5 Choreography as research Iteration, object, context Ben Spatz SECTION 2 Processes of making Section introduction Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut 2.6 Too many cooks? A framework for dance making and devising Jo Butterworth 2.7 Facilitating choreographic process Larry Lavender 2.8 Velvet Petal: Getting Lost Fleur Darkin 2.9 Risk-taking and group dance improvisation João da Silva 2.10 Dancing strategies and moving identities The contributions independent contemporary dancers make to the choreographic process Jenny Roche 2.11 Jonathan Burrows’ Postdance Conference keynote address, Stockholm 2015 Jonathan Burrows INTERVENTION
