This is a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our relationship with living and dying. Dancer, choreographer, educator and therapist Emilyn Claid draws inspiration from her personal and professional experiences to explore alternative approaches to being present in the world.
Bringing together thirty authors variously invested in dance, performance and/or choreography; This Container is a zine for texts produced through and alongside dance, performance and choreography.
One of the first books to examine Somatics in detail and to analyse how and what it teaches in the dance studio, The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training considers how dancers discover and assimilate new ways of moving and also larger cultural values associated with those movements.
“Writing the body with the body” consists of fragments taken from performance texts by Stefanie Knobel, which are juxtaposed with a series of pictures created for this volume
Kindly donated for the Swiss live Art Study Room Guide.
La Ribot, Exhibition catalogue. 11/8-2/9 2017, Berlin.
Second edition of Material concerns itself with in/visibility in contemporary artistic practice, especially dance.
Publication on a new entity of events as part of ANTI Festival, where the artists shortlisted for the International Prize of Live Art present their work.
In English and Finnish.
Publication made as part of a choreographic work investigating the relationship between theoretical, aesthetic and performing aspects of an artistic work. Includes two essays: ÆØÅ and Pointing back.
Film created as part of The Casement Project, a multi-disciplinary project about Roger Casement, a British knight, Irish rebel and international humanitarian.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Reaffirms the central position of the body in various artistic practices through in-depth conversations with choreographers, composers, visual artists, hip hop artists, dramaturges, a light designer and a puppeteer.
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
First edition of the anthology consisting of texts written by artists active within the field of dance and choreography in the Nordic countries.
In Nordic languages and English.
Second edition of the anthology consisting of texts written by artists active within the field of dance and choreography in the Nordic countries.
In Nordic languages and English.
On dance and new performance work.
In misc folder 7.
Includes instructions from more than 35 artists’ walks along with a section that features the insights and philosophy of Elastic City Founder who spent 14 years presenting and refining walks. The section, titled ‘Creating Your Own Walk,’ covers conceptual, narrative and logistical concerns, how to encourage participation and how to best promote this work.
A donkey choreographs a group of dancers.
Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.
Zine featuring Caroline Thomas, Francesca Laura Cavallo, Eleni Papazoglou, Lisa Kinsolving, António Branco, Riccardo, Leonie Brandner, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, Wolff-Michael Roth.
Critical analyses of cultural spectacle and social identity by eighteen major Australian scholars and practitioners.
Explores care as a way of moving and moving as a way of caring. Made alongside the research and making of a solo dance performance, You sit there.
Highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A publication on the performance for adults which explored, through image, sound, light, text and the choreography of hundreds of objects, what it is to change, to grow, and to age.
Original production: Young Vic – London: 27th September – 9th October 2010
This text finds the intimate affinity between dance and philosophy in the concept of problem and invites the reader to perceive dance and philosophy as a form of ballistics: the art of throwing.
Resisting the control of the image, transcending from the 2-dimensional, practicing being-a-body-in-the-world.
Anthology of interdisciplinary essays which critically examines the interlocking themes of artistic authorship, authenticity, and legacy from legal, art market, and art historical perspective.
Proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art.
This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium.
Explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a collection of critical writings and original artworks,
On Rosemary Butcher's choreographic concerns through 20 uncompromising years.
On Das Stück mit dem Schiff and Amor constante mas alla de la muerte.
Unmaking American dance by tradition.
Is dance an appropriate medium for political debate?
On Wyoming and White Man Sleeps.
An assessment of experimental work in the early years of Dance Umbrella (1978-1983).
Discusses the work of a seminal figure in British New Dance.
From the special collaborative issue Rambert at the Big Top.
A preview of the mini-season of US black choreographers' work.
Traces the origins and development of the Japanese form of dance theatre.
On Meredith Monk.
On 10 Years On: a retrospective (Riverside Studios, 1985).
On the launch of Gabi Agis' company.
On reviewing vs criticism
Interview with Meredith Monk.
Conversation between two members of the Ludus Dance Company.
African dance and western programmers.
A survey of new dance in Germany and the USA.
Review of Jan Faber's piece, performed at the ICA.
On development of Cunningham's practice.