Writing Choreography

Textualities of and beyond Dance

Leena Rouhiainen, Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton , Chrysa Parkinson

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Routledge
28 March 2024

Theatre Studies; Choreography

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.

Edited by: Leena Rouhiainen, Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton, Chrysa Parkinson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 810g
ISBN: 9781032501987
ISBN 10: 1032501987
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 28 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.