Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance

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Julia M. Ritter (Associate Professor, Chair, and Artistic Director of Dance, Associate Professor, Chair, and Artistic Director of Dance, Rutgers University)

Tandem Dances

Choreographing Immersive Performance

Julia M. Ritter (Associate Professor, Chair, and Artistic Director of Dance, Associate Professor, Chair, and Artistic Director of Dance, Rutgers University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
31 December 2020

Theatre Studies; Dance & Performing arts; Contemporary dance; Other performing arts

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theatre, more broadly known as immersive performance. Indicative of a larger renaissance in storytelling during the digital age, immersive performance is influenced by emerging computer technologies, such as virtual reality and advances in video-gaming, as well as increased interest in new forms of experiential entertainment. The idea of tandemness DL suggesting motion that is achieved by two bodies working together and acting in conjunction with one another DL is critical throughout the book. Author Julia M. Ritter persuasively argues that practitioners of immersive productions deploy choreography as a structural mechanism to mobilize the bodies of cast and audience members to perform together. Furthermore, choreography is contextualized as an effective tool for facilitating audience participation towards immersion as an affect. Through a focus on Western dance histories, theories, and practices, Ritter's close choreographic analysis of immersive productions, along with unique insights from choreographers, directors, performers, and spectators, enlivens discourse across dramaturgy, kinesthesia, affect, and co-authorship. By foregrounding the choreographic in order to examine its specific impact on the evolution of immersive theater, Tandem Dances explores choreography as a discursive domain that is fundamentally related to creative practice, agendas of power and control, and concomitant issues of freedom and agency.

By: Julia M. Ritter (Associate Professor Chair and Artistic Director of Dance Associate Professor Chair and Artistic Director of Dance Rutgers University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9780190051303
ISBN 10: 0190051302
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 31 December 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Tracing Choreography 2. Designing Differently With Dance 3. Elicitive Dramaturgy: Third Rail Projects' Then She Fell 4. Insider Dynamics & Extended Audiencing: Punchdrunk's Sleep No More 5. Coauthorality: bluemouth inc.'s Dance Marathon 6. Speculative Futures References Index

Julia M. Ritter serves as the Chair and Artistic Director of the Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Reviews for Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance

While dance is integral to so much immersive theatre, its contribution remains relatively covert. Ritter has written a much-needed book to work through the production and reception of choreography within this contemporary performance form. * Kate Elswit, author of Theatre & Danceand Watching Weimar Dance * Tandem Dances makes a welcome intervention in a field that has marginalised the perspectives and insights of dance scholars, dancers, choreographers, and choreographed audiences. It prompts reconsideration of how audiences are immersed in contemporary performance by centring on choreography, kinesthesia, and improvisatory engagement as key elements underpinning the design and experience of immersive environments, and offers a helpful means of conceptualising and analysing audience immersionin ways that I'm sure will inspire fresh consideration of the political in immersive performance. * Adam Alston, Goldsmiths, University of London *