Contemporary Choreography

Jo Butterworth directs a part-time postgraduate degree in Choreography at Fontys Dansacademie, Fontys Professional University, Tilburg, Holland. She is a Board member of Random Dance, the Bird Foundation, and Northern Ballet Theatre and has chaired SCODHE, (Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education) and the Dance Section of ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts). Liesbeth Wildschut lectures in dance history and dance theory in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Utrecht University. She is chair of the Dutch Society for Dance Research.

1. General Introduction: studying contemporary choreography - Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut Section 1: Conceptual and Philosophical Concerns 2. Knowing through Dance-making: Choreography, practical knowledge and practice-as-research - Anna Pakes 3. Expert-intuitive Processing and the Logics of Production: struggles in (the wording of) creative decision-making in 'dance' - Susan F. Melrose 4. Visible Thought: Choreographic cognition in creating, performing, and watching contemporary dance - Shirley McKechnie and Catherine J. Stevens 5. 'Throwing Like a Girl'?: Gender in a transnational world - Susan Leigh Foster Section 2: Higher Educational Settings 6. Facilitating Choreographic Process - Larry Lavender 7. Creativity in Dance Education through use of interactive technology resources - Jacqueline Smith-Autard 8. Evaluation -- nurturing or stifling a choreographic learning process? - Soili Hamalainen 9. Supporting Students' Reflection in Choreography Classes - Ali Leijen 10. Dance Analysis in a Postmodern Age: integrating theory and practice - Bonnie Rowell 11. Choreographer as Researcher: issues and concepts in postgraduate study - Jo Butterworth Section 3: Communities 12. Too Many Cooks? A framework for dance making and devising - Jo Butterworth 13. Doing Time: A discussion of interventionist and celebratory approaches to dance making for undergraduates - Christine Lomas 14. Dancing around Exclusion: an examination of the issues of social inclusion within choreographic practice in the community - Sara Houston 15. Sharing the Stage: a case study on Tij, a choreography for Dutch professional and amateur dancers - Caroline Ribbers and Ninke van Herpt 16. Choreography Coaching in the Field of Amateur Dance in the Netherlands - Dirk Dumon Section 4: Intercultural contexts 17. Principles of African Choreography: some perspectives from Ghana - Francis Nii-Yartey 18. An Intercultural Encounter: the Dance Fusion project - Ilythyia de Ligniere 19. Beyond the Intercultural to the Accented Body: An Australian perspective - Cheryl Stock 20. The Confluence of Multicultural and Intercultural Discourses in Malaysian Contemporary Dance - Mohd Anis Md Nor Section 5: Changing Aesthetics 21. In Search of Asian Modernity: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's Body Aesthetics in the Era of Globalisation - Ya-Ping Chen 22. Seeing the body move: Choreographic investigations of kinaesthetics at the end of the twentieth century - Jeroen Fabius 23. Choreographic Environments: new technologies and movement-related artistic work - Sophia Lycouris 24. Performing Installations: towards an understanding of choreography and performativity in interactive installations - Sarah Rubidge Section 6: Relationships with other disciplines 25. Reinforcement for the choreographer: the dance dramaturge as ally - Liesbeth Wildschut 26. Experiencing Space: The implications for site-specific dance performance - Victoria Hunter 27. Dancing with Sprites and Robots: New approaches to collaboration between dance and digital technologies - Sita Popat and Scott Palmer 28. Augmenting Choreography: Insights and inspiration from science - Scott deLahunta, Phil Barnard and Wayne McGregor