1st Edition
Writing Choreography Textualities of and beyond Dance
A new contribution to studies in choreography, Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance focuses upon language and writing-based approaches to choreographing from the perspectives of artists and researchers active in the Nordic and Oceanic contexts.
Through the contributions of 15 dance–artists, choreographers, dramaturges, writers, interdisciplinary artists and artist–researchers, the volume highlights diverse textual choreographic processes and outcomes arguing for their relevance to present-day practices of expanded choreography. The anthology introduces some Western trends related to utilizing writing, text and language in choreographic processes. In its focus on art-making processes, it likewise offers insight into how performance can be transcribed into writing, how practices of writing choreograph and how choreography can be a process of writing with. Readers, such as dancers, choreographers, students in higher education of these fields as well as researchers in choreography, gain understanding about different experimental forms of writing forwarded by diverse choreographers and how writing is the motional organisation of images, signs, words and texts. The volume presents a new strand in expanded choreography and acts as inspiration for its continued evolution that engenders new adaptations between language, writing and choreography.
Ideal for students, scholars and researchers of choreography and dance studies.
1. Introduction
Leena Rouhiainen, Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton and Chrysa Parkinson
2. Motifs and Insights: Textual Choreography, Dance Studies and Local Conditions in Finland
Leena Rouhiainen and Kirsi Heimonen
Part 1: Transcribing Performance into Writing
3. Talking, Dancing, Hearing, Seeing, Writing, Reading: notes on plenty serious TALK TALK
Vicki Van Hout
4. the place where the actual and fictional touch, the place where a language flicks channels
alys longley
5. The Treatment: writing a choreography (that has already happened) as a film (that hasn’t yet been made)
Jennifer Lacey
6. Invitation: Choreoreading EXOXƎ
Simo Kellokumpu
Part 2: Practices of Writing that Choreograph
7. Letter to Saint Hildegard of Bingen
Lynda Gaudreau
8. Logging: Expedition and Encounter
Amaara Raahem
9. Notes On Betrayal
Martin Hargreaves
Part 3: Choreography as Writing With
10. Cicatrix Textus II
Marie Fahlin
11. Choreo-graphic Writing – Towards More-Than-One Means of Inscription
Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil
12. The Choreographic Politics of a Staircase
Kirsi Heimonen and Leena Rouhiainen
13. Choreographic Aftermath
Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton, Chrysa Parkinson and Leena Rouhiainen
Biography
Leena Rouhiainen is Head of the Research Institute of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland, and Professor of Artistic Research at the university’s Theatre Academy. She is a dancer and choreographer whose research interests lie in experimental writing, phenomenology and artistic research.
Kirsi Heimonen is University Researcher at the Research Institute of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. Her background is in dance, choreography, somatic movement practices and experimental writing.
Rebecca Hilton is Professor of Choreography in the research area Site-Event-Encounter, at Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden. As a performer, writer, pedagogue and researcher, she works to unfold relationships between embodied knowledges, oral traditions and choreographic systems.
Chrysa Parkinson is Professor of Dance and Head of the subject area Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden. Her research focus is on performers’ perspectives and authorship.
