Performing Process

Emma Meehan is a research fellow in the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University. Hetty Blades is a research fellow at Coventry University.

Introduction - Hetty Blades and Emma Meehan



Part 1: Philosophy of Process



Chapter 1: Atomos EChOs and the Process-ing of Dances - Stephanie Jordan and Anna Pakes



Chapter 2: Choreographic Knowledge and Aesthetic Empiricism - Hetty Blades



Part 2: Methods and Formats



Chapter 3: Enhancing Choreographic Objects: Traces, Texts and Tales of a Journey through Dance - Sarah Whatley



Chapter 4: Research as Co-Habitation: Experimental Composition across Theory and Practice - Erin Brannigan, Matthew Day and Lizzie Thomson



Chapter 5: Process as Performance or Variations of Swinging - Annette Arlander



Chapter 6: Crystallisations, Constellations and Sharings: Exploring Somatic Process with Sandra Reeve - Emma Meehan



Part 3: Documentation, Dissemination and Scores



Chapter 7: Exploring Creative Thought in Choreography Together: Process Documentation with the Australian Dance Theatre - Scott deLahunta, Jordan Beth Vincent, Elizabeth Old, Garry Stewart, James Leach and Catherine J. Stevens



Chapter 8: Architectural and Choreographic Diagrams as Processual Modes of Sharing Creative Practices - Ariadne Mikou



Chapter 9: Dancing on the Page/Writing on the Stage: Sharing Dance (and) Theatre Process Documents - The Drawings of Jan Fabre - Edith Cassiers



Chapter 10: Animating the Archive: Voguing, Sampling and Queering Tatsumi Hijikata - Sara Jansen



Part 4: Politics and Labour



Chapter 11: The 'Visible Choreographer': Trust and Power, Reviewing Choreography as a Social Practice - Kathinka Walter-Høeg



Chapter 12: The Use of Uselessness - Claudia Kappenberg



Chapter 13: Resisting Explanation: The Politics of Audience Development and Possibilities of Form - Nicola Conibere



Contributors 



Index