Contemporary Choreography

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 choreographySection 1. Processes of MakingSection Introduction1. Choreography through a Somatic Lens2. Dancing identities: How dancers’ embodied knowledge underscores creative methods in contemporary dancemaking3. ‘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 dance5. Creating Future Memories, NOW: FORWARD DANCE COMPANY by LOFFT - DAS THEATER and the reimagining of disability, diversity, and cultural memorySection 2. Culture, Contexts and IntersectionsSection Introduction6. Maybe You Could Close Your Eyes While I Dance: Age, Ageing, and in/visibility as choreographic drivers in Acting our Age7. Recomposing Thai Dance for Today’s World: Three Modes of Contemporary Choreographic Practice8. Gaga’s Aspirational Politics: Passepartout Bodies and Choreographic Passports9. Dancing Culture, Talking Global10. Choreography in Ghana: evolving methods and techniques11. Choreography as Research: Iteration, Object, ContextSection 3. Choreography, Politics and PowerSection Introduction12. Vulnerable practice: Thinking through discomfort and precarity in Project O’s Voodoo (2017)13. Dancing Simply together: an example transdisciplinary research in arts and sciences14. Prize-winning dances; choreography and the competition stage15. Multifarious identity: Barbardian street dance on the concert stage16. Moving into Action: change-making through dance activismSection 4. Choreography and Interdisciplinary Arts PracticeSection Introduction17. Choreography as a practice of border crossing: ten insights into embracing the impossible in interdisciplinary dance practice18. HOMECOMING19. Beyond Dancing: The Choreographic Turn in the 2022 Taiwan Arts Biennial20. Dance in the Museum21. From Improvements to Care: gardening as choreographic dwellingSection 5. Technology, Transmission and ImmersionSection Introduction22. Unlocking Touch23. Virtual Reality and Dance-Making: unbounding choreographic practice from the realm of real-time performance24. Social Media and Choreographic Practice: Tools for collaboration, co-creation and creative practice25. Shifts in Embodiment: Choreographic practice for Virtual RealitySection 6. Choreographic Environments and InterventionsSection Introduction26. Navigating Diasporic ‘Third Spaces’ and (New) Borderlands through Dance and Choreography27. Dancing Places: Sites, Situations, and Taking-Place28. Sensóriagrafia in Public Spaces: Dance and words as a relational sensory, poetic intervention29. A Reservoir of Gestures, or Choreography is Relational30. Unlocking Liberation: Choreographing the ‘Club State’