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Contemporary Choreography

A Critical Reader

Jo Butterworth, Vicky Hunter (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
494 Seiten
2026 | 3rd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-64574-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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.

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.

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 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 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 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 Power

Section 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 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’

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 27 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
ISBN-10 1-032-64574-1 / 1032645741
ISBN-13 978-1-032-64574-2 / 9781032645742
Zustand Neuware
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