ABSTRACT
Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and innovative challenges to traditional understandings of dance making.
Contributions from a global range of practitioners and researchers address a spectrum of concerns in the field, organized into seven broad domains:
- Conceptual and philosophical concerns
- Processes of making
- Dance dramaturgy: structures, relationships, contexts
- Choreographic environments
- Cultural and intercultural contexts
- Challenging aesthetics
- Choreographic relationships with technology.
Including 23 new chapters and 10 updated ones, Contemporary Choreography captures the essence and progress of choreography in the twenty-first century, supporting and encouraging rigorous thinking and research for future generations of dance practitioners and scholars.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 1|79 pages
Conceptual and philosophical concerns
chapter 1|14 pages
Knowing through dance-making
chapter 2|16 pages
Expert-intuitive and deliberative processes
section 2|95 pages
Processes of making
chapter 10|15 pages
Dancing strategies and moving identities
section 3|50 pages
Dance dramaturgy: structures, relationships, contexts
chapter 13|14 pages
The catalytic function of dramaturgy
section 4|78 pages
Choreographic environments
chapter 15|14 pages
Dancing around exclusion
section 5|89 pages
Cultural and intercultural contexts
chapter 21|12 pages
The body as a site of power
chapter 24|13 pages
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan *
section 6|59 pages
Challenging aesthetics
chapter 26|14 pages
In search of Asian modernity
chapter 27|14 pages
The body as the stage of abstract space
section 7|69 pages
Choreographic relationships with technology
