ABSTRACT
In this chapter, dance artist Ellen Jeffrey explores what we can learn of the night by dancing in the dark: what we can encounter of the nocturnal world by venturing out and moving with it. Sharing aspects of her night-time choreographic research, this chapter blurs wandering and walking and dancing to explore how night-time darkness shapes the ways in which we move, and the ways in which we kinaesthetically relate to a place at night. By engaging with night as a world in which what is visually perceived no longer equates to clarity and accuracy—a world where the imagination anticipates form rather than recognises it—this chapter endeavours to comprehend the movement of the dancer in the dark as a patterning of potentialities that compose and de-compose within the temporalities of a nightscape.
