| Description |
xxi, 458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. General introduction: studying contemporary choreography / Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut -- Sect. 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 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 -- Sect. 2. Higher educational settings -- 6. Facilitating the 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 Hamalainen -- 9. Supporting students' reflection in choreography classes / Ali 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 -- Sect. 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 -- Sect. 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 Ligniere -- 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 -- Sect. 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 -- Sect. 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 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Choreography.
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Dance.
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| Author |
Butterworth, Jo.
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Wildschut, Liesbeth, 1952-
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| LC no. |
2008051953 |
| ISBN |
0415490863 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0415490871 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780415490863 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780415490870 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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