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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.
List of contents
General Introduction: Studying contemporary choreography
Section 1. Processes of MakingSection 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 IntersectionsSection Introduction
6.
Maybe You Could Close Your Eyes While I Dance: Age, Ageing, and in/visibility as choreographic drivers in
Acting our Age7. 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 PowerSection 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 PracticeSection 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 ImmersionSection 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 InterventionsSection 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'
About the author
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.
