Contemporary Choreography : A Critical Reader
Contemporary Choreography : A Critical Reader
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Author(s): Butterworth, Jo
ISBN No.: 9780415490863
Pages: 458
Year: 200905
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 169.36
Status: Out Of Print

1. General Introduction: studying contemporary choreography - Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut  Section 1: Conceptual and Philosophical Concerns  2. Knowing through Dance-making: Choreography, practical knowledge and practice-as-research - Anna Pakes  3. Expert-intuitive Processing and the Logics of Production: struggles in (the wording of) creative decision-making in 'dance' - Susan F. Melrose  4. Visible Thought: Choreographic cognition in creating, performing, and watching contemporary dance - Shirley McKechnie and Catherine J. Stevens  5. 'Throwing Like a Girl'?: Gender in a transnational world - Susan Leigh Foster Section 2: Higher Educational Settings   6.


Facilitating Choreographic Process - Larry Lavender  7. Creativity in Dance Education through use of interactive technology resources - Jacqueline Smith-Autard  8. Evaluation - nurturing or stifling a choreographic learning process? - Soili Hämäläinen  9. Supporting Students' Reflection in Choreography Classes - Äli Leijen  10. Dance Analysis in a Postmodern Age: integrating theory and practice - Bonnie Rowell  11. Choreographer as Researcher: issues and concepts in postgraduate study - Jo Butterworth   Section 3: Communities  12. Too Many Cooks? A framework for dance making and devising - Jo Butterworth  13. Doing Time: A discussion of interventionist and celebratory approaches to dance making for undergraduates - Christine Lomas  14.


Dancing around Exclusion: an examination of the issues of social inclusion within choreographic practice in the community - Sara Houston  15. Sharing the Stage: a case study on Tij, a choreography for Dutch professional and amateur dancers - Caroline Ribbers and Ninke van Herpt  16. Choreography Coaching in the Field of Amateur Dance in the Netherlands - Dirk Dumon   Section 4: Intercultural contexts  17. Principles of African Choreography: some perspectives from Ghana - Francis Nii-Yartey  18. An Intercultural Encounter: the Dance Fusion project - Ilythyia de Lignière  19. Beyond the Intercultural to the Accented Body: An Australian perspective - Cheryl Stock  20. The Confluence of Multicultural and Intercultural Discourses in Malaysian Contemporary Dance - Mohd Anis Md Nor  Section 5: Changing Aesthetics  21. In Search of Asian Modernity: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's Body Aesthetics in the Era of Globalisation - Ya-Ping Chen  22.


Seeing the body move: Choreographic investigations of kinaesthetics at the end of the twentieth century - Jeroen Fabius  23. Choreographic Environments: new technologies and movement-related artistic work - Sophia Lycouris  24. Performing Installations: towards an understanding of choreography and performativity in interactive installations - Sarah Rubidge  Section 6: Relationships with other disciplines   25. Reinforcement for the choreographer: the dance dramaturge as ally - Liesbeth Wildschut  26. Experiencing Space: The implications for site-specific dance performance - Victoria Hunter  27. Dancing with Sprites and Robots: New approaches to collaboration between dance and digital technologies - Sita Popat and Scott Palmer  28. Augmenting Choreography: Insights and inspiration from science - Scott deLahunta, Phil Barnard and Wayne McGregor.


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