Making and the Choreographic – Researching (in/as) Motion

Carol Brown Field Guide for Choreography as Research¹

Carol Brown Field Guide for Choreography as Research¹
A field guide for wayfaring through the creative and institutional spaces of choreographic practice as research must necessarily be mutable, mobile and capable of weathering change. Through Choreography as Research Practice, the traditional character of knowledge is usurped by a refusal to distance thinking from moving, knowing from being, thought from the material specificity of bodies. This work recognises that knowledge always has a material as well as conceptual reality. In posing problems through dance as aesthetic, ethico-political and intellectual enquiry, research becomes activated through diverse terrains requiring topographical know-how. Becoming a wayfarer proposes a choreo-philosophy that involves mobilizing, mapping and writing simultaneously in relation to spaces and kinesthetic topographies.
Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)

Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)
This text was written with the concern of how to understand methodological practices to proceed during an artistic/creative process with visually impaired performers. The creative process is described in its somatic influences, especially Authentic Movement and somatic-performative research. From this perspective, aesthetic principles of the somatic-performative urban event Cidade Cega are exposed in the context of its practical research laboratory. The main theme of the urban event is the potential of the other senses (touch, hearing, smell, and taste), beyond sight, as a means for the perception of the city of Salvador, in the state of Bahia, in Brazil, empowering the visually impaired as autonomous and able subjects who could guide others in a sensorial and collective exploration of the city.
Pil Hansen Interdisciplinary Research StrategiesWorking Across Artistic Research and Dance Scholarship, Dance Psychology, or Dance Science

Pil Hansen Interdisciplinary Research StrategiesWorking Across Artistic Research and Dance Scholarship, Dance Psychology, or Dance Science
Hansen offers a doctorate-level introduction to a series of challenges and benefits involved in interdisciplinary dance research that is (co-)led by an artistic researcher. Strategic approaches are shared, the importance of methodological communication and choice-making is discussed, and the relationship between such choices and the impact of the knowledge produced is emphasized with reference to examples from the author’s research praxis. More specifically, the contribution addresses the following subjects: interdisciplinary collaboration and communication; negotiation across knowledge paradigms and criteria of validity; differences between multidisciplinary stratification and interdisciplinary transfer and integration; documentation and data sharing strategies; resource-effective inquiry across multiple projects; and enhancement of reach and impact through multidisciplinary articulation.
Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research

Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research
This chapter discusses possibilities and workings of critical somatic arts research from a practitioner perspective. The author debates questions, processes and problems concerning his research towards the integration of somatic processes within performance- making and training contexts. The chapter gives an insight into issues arising from the application of Feldenkrais Method®, a key twentieth century somatic modality, as preparatory, enactive tuning and emancipatory ethical process within performing arts research.
Peter Mills No Answers Questions Only

Peter Mills No Answers Questions Only
What if this collective choreographic practice asks that everyone speak only in question form? What if this collective choreographic practice allows no singular authority to be upheld? What if this collective choreographic practice encourages an individual to go with the collective choreography? What if this collective choreographic practice encourages an individual to oppose, undermine, suggest an alternative or propose reluctance as part of a collective choreography? What if this collective choreographic practice produces the possibility for practicing collective choreography? What if this collective choreographic practice creates a commitment to practicing choreography collectively?
Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement

Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement
This article reviews the methodological concerns of my doctoral research which was concerned with articulating the experience of forming movement material within a solo, contemporary dance-making practice. In order to do this in a way that best expressed and communicated the uniqueness of the practice itself, I adopted certain aspects of Authentic Movement (Adler 2002) as the basis for my methodology. As I am also a practitioner of Authentic Movement, the deep synergies it already has with my dance-making practice allowed me to develop out of it a reflective framework that still speaks directly from the voice of the dance-maker. The making of a solo dance work called perch and the development of the methodology by which I communicated the experience of making it became two sides of the same process.

TopicMaking and the Choreographic

Carol Brown Field Guide for Choreography as Research¹

Carol Brown Field Guide for Choreography as Research¹

Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)

Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)

Pil Hansen Interdisciplinary Research StrategiesWorking Across Artistic Research and Dance Scholarship, Dance Psychology, or Dance Science

Pil Hansen Interdisciplinary Research StrategiesWorking Across Artistic Research and Dance Scholarship, Dance Psychology, or Dance Science

Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research

Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research

Peter Mills No Answers Questions Only

Peter Mills No Answers Questions Only

Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement

Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement

Carol Brown Field Guide for Choreography as Research1

Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)

Pil Hansen Interdisciplinary Research StrategiesWorking Across Artistic Research and Dance Scholarship, Dance Psychology, or Dance Science

Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research

Peter Mills No Answers Questions Only

Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement

Carol Brown Field Guide for Choreography as Research¹