ABSTRACT
In this introduction to the Dance Practice Part, Midgelow provides an overview of Practice-as-Research (PaR) and its variants, and situates its development in both contemporary dance-making and the university. Pointing to the broader shift to “choreographic thinking,” Midgelow argues that dance-making can be both the site of research and the dissemination of such. The chapter then discusses the four chapters in the Dance Practice Part by Jo Pollitt, Aurelia Chillemi and Victoria Fortuna, John-Paul Zaccarini, and Eiko Otake in relation to the wider PaR field. These and other knowledges produced by PaR, Midgelow argues, lead to a diversification of ways of knowing in the academy.
