1st Edition
The Speaking Dancer Finding Humanity through the Embodied Voice
Introduction
1. The Interdisciplinary Aesthetics of Radical Dance
Theatre Landscapes and Memories - Finding a Voice through
Movement
The Actor Dancer - Vocabularies and Processes
Plays and Playing
Visual Landscapes - Abstraction, Image and the Everyday
The Object-hood of Dance and Gesture
2. Emotional Embodiment as Life and Art
Knowing Children
Being Present in all Senses
Other Animals
The Good The Bad and The Ugly Swan
Dance as Healing and Empowerment
Anything can be a Dance
3. The Speaking Dancer as Feminist Metaphor and Practice
Do you know where your perineum is?
What are you looking at?
4. Different Voices - Dance as Political Activism
Migration and Dance
Reclaiming the creative context of Black Dance in the UK
The political voice of Black Dance
Defying Ageism with Dance
Protecting the Planet through Art and Collaboration
Why artists are important
Conclusion
Biography
Jacky Lansley is a choreographer, writer, and visual/performance artist with over five decades of experience. She was a founding member of two of the UK’s leading independent dance studios, X6 Dance Space and Chisenhale Dance Space. In 2002, she founded the Dance Research Studio (DRS) in London, where she launched The Speaking Dancer Interdisciplinary Performance Training (SDIPT). Her published works include The Wise Body: Conversations with Experienced Dancers, co-authored with Fergus Early (2011), and Choreographies: Tracing the Materials of an Ephemeral Art Form (2017). In 2018, she was the recipient of the One Dance UK’s prestigious Jane Attenborough Award for outstanding services to dance.
