Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer: Moving Identities

by J. Roche

Overview

This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspectives, drawn from interviews, current writing and evocative accounts from inside the choreographic process, illuminating the myriad ways that dancers contribute to the production of dance culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137429858
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/22/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	164
File size:	815 KB

About the Author

Jennifer Roche is Lecturer in Dance at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She has worked extensively in contemporary dance as a performer, choreographer and company director and was the dance adviser to the Arts Council of Ireland. Her research explores the dancer's creative practice from philosophical, somatic and narrative perspectives.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Dancing Multiplicities 2. Descending into Stillness: Rosemary Butcher 3. Veils Within Veils: John Jasperse 4. The Shape Remains: Jodi Melnick 5. From Singular to Multiple: Liz Roche 6. Corporeal Traces and Moving Identities 7. Further Iterations and Final Reflections Notes Select Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'How refreshing is this academic research written through the lived experience of a dancing performer.

Dancers' embodied engagement with choreographic process and performance often slips through the net of academic research. Considered as ephemeral dancers' contributions remain unspoken and undocumented. In this book the author's voice vibrates loud and clear, as she allows us access to her thinking and movement-based research working as a dancer with four internationally recognized choreographers. Taking ownership of each stage of production, commissioning, choreographic process and performance, Jenny Roche documents the heart of her practice dancing contextualizing her experiences with a breath of knowledge drawn from philosophical and artistic sources.

Yet this is more than a personal story. The author offers independent contemporary dancers a model for developing stylistic moving identities through practice led research that recognizes the powerful contributions made by dancers to choreographic process.' - Emilyn Claid, Roehampton University, UK

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