Writing Choreography

Textualities of and beyond Dance

Leena Rouhiainen, Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton, Chrysa Parkinson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781003856047
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Motifs and insights: textual choreography, dance studies and local conditions in Finland
• Part 1 Transcribing performance into writing
• Part 2 Practices of writing that choreograph
• Part 3 Choreography as writing with
• Contributors
• Index