A Choreographer's Handbook
eBook - ePub

A Choreographer's Handbook

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Choreographer's Handbook

About this book

On choreography: 'Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.'

On rules: 'Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis.'

The updated and revised edition of 'A Choreographer's Handbook' invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, questions, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned choreographer Jonathan Burrows explains how it's possible to navigate a course through this complex process.

It is a stunning reflection on a personal practice and professional journey, and draws upon many years of workshop discussions, led by Burrows.

Burrows' open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of principles, exercises, meditations and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process.

It is a book for anyone interested in making performance, at whatever level and in whichever style.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040156834
Edition
0
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Theatre

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface to the second edition
  8. Dancing / Principles
  9. Material
  10. Habits
  11. Repetition
  12. Repetition
  13. Repetition
  14. Improvisation / Cut and paste / Choreography
  15. Form
  16. Exploration / Risk
  17. Subject / Inspiration / Stealing / Familiar movement / Choreography / Referencing other sources
  18. Research / How and what? / Dramaturgy / Theory / Curiosity
  19. Breaking the rules
  20. Contract / Performance space
  21. Self-expression
  22. Abstract dance
  23. Interview / Unfinished business / Questions / Principles
  24. Financial limitations / Studios / Funding applications
  25. Collaboration / Audience
  26. Preparation / Meetings / Rehearsal schedule / Heaviness
  27. Originality / Ecology / Paradox
  28. Technique / Parrot on your shoulder / Authenticity / Dancing / Style / Fiddling
  29. Virtuosity
  30. Specificity
  31. Daily practice
  32. Hoarding / Beginnings
  33. Endings
  34. Keeping it going / Pacing
  35. Change / Dub reggae / Simple material / Desperation
  36. Predictable and unpredictable / Expectation
  37. Stillness and silence
  38. Minimal and maximal
  39. Solos, duos, trios, quartets
  40. Many bodies / States
  41. Parallel voices
  42. Performance / Principles
  43. Distracting the self / Paradox / Choreography / Performance / Electric guitars
  44. Does it work? / Showings / Mentoring
  45. Narrative / Ballet / Continuity
  46. Continuity / Material / Make six things / Choreography / Flow
  47. Relation
  48. Relation / Time / Rhythm
  49. Time
  50. Counterpoint
  51. Unison
  52. Scores / Studios / Translation / Sequencing / Improvisation
  53. Chance / Empty hands / Gamut of movements / Limitations / Laborious work / Philosophy
  54. Audience / Facing the front / Facing each other / Confrontation / Humour / Failure
  55. Place or space?
  56. Audience
  57. Hierarchies / Dancer or choreographer? / In it or out of it? / Who owns what?
  58. The marketplace / Earning a living / Administrating the work / Commercial work / Commissions / Academia
  59. Music / Collaboration / Silence
  60. Text
  61. Lighting / Technicians / Collaboration / Costumes / Set design / Nudity
  62. Filming / History / Collaboration / Mirrors / Human-scale
  63. Titles
  64. How can I simplify all of this?
  65. Forget all this
  66. Bibliography
  67. Thanks
  68. Biography of the author
  69. Index