Abstract

Choreographic process is increasingly examined, shared and discussed in a variety of academic, artistic and performative contexts. More than ever before, post-show discussions, artistic blogs, books, archives, seminars and sharings provide opportunities for choreographers to explain their individual methodologies. Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice provides a unique theoretical examination of this current trend in dance scholarship. The chapters in this collection examine the methods, politics and philosophy of sharing choreographic process, aiming to investigate the theoretical repercussions and the implications on forms of knowledge, the appreciation of dance, education and artistic practices.
Hetty Blades and Emma Meehan are research fellows at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University.
‘This reader gathers an enriched understanding of dance and choreography as ontologically processual, open-ended; a mutable discipline resistant to closure around a stable object.’ Carol Brown, dancer and associate professor at University of Auckland ‘This book expands dance scholarship significantly by exposing a range of approaches to theorising process and by providing new insights into choreographic thinking in the second decade of the twenty-first century.’ Jo Butterworth, professor of dance studies at University of Malta