Blue Sky Body

Ben Spatz is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK. They are the author of What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research (2015), the founder and editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research, published by Open Library of Humanities, and an internationally recognized speaker on embodied research methods. For more information, please visit www.urbanresearchtheater.com.

Foreword : D. Soyini Madison

Preface: Blue Sky Body

Acknowledgments

THRESHOLDS

1. CITY: FRAGMENTS

Sky Gold (1995)

The Electronic Heart (2001)

Vermilion’s Text (2001-2003)

Another City (2009)

Embodiment as First Affordance (2017)

2. SONG: FRAGMENTS

Sweat (2003)

Vessels (2008)

Burning Up (2009)

Topology of Song (2015)

Colors Like Knives (2017)

3. MOVEMENT: FRAGMENTS

First Showing (2000)

The Door is Open (2004)

Letters to an Empty Room (2008)

Irregular Rhythms (2014)

Choreography as Research (2017)

4. THEATER: FRAGMENTS

Wild Spirit (1999)

Acts Without Organs (2008)

Beckett’s Non-Theater (2011)

PLAYWAR (2012)

A Thousand Tiny Viewpoints (2020)

5. SEX: FRAGMENTS

the desert (2003)

On Pornography and Trauma (2009)

Is Grotowski Queer? (2013)

soft butch (2018)

This Extraordinary Power (2010)

6. DOCUMENT: FRAGMENTS

Citing Musicality (2013)

Ethics of the Scribble (2016)

What Do We Document? (2017)

Criteria for Assessment (2017)

The Video Way of Thinking (2018)

7. POLITICS: FRAGMENTS

neverland (2002)

A Charismatic Moment (2009)

Touching Landscape (2016)

Duration and Kinship (2018)

Notes for Decolonizing Embodiment (2019)

Appendix: Interviews

Interview: Iben Nagel Rasmussen (2018)

Interview: Tim Ingold (2019)

Performance Text: Rite of the Butcher (2013)