Writing choreography : textualities of and beyond dance / edited by Leena Rouhiainen, Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton and Chrysa Parkinson.

Includes index.

Part 1. Transcribing performance into writing -- Talking, dancing, hearing, seeing, writing, reading: notes on plenty serious TALK TALK / Vicki Van Hout -- The place where the actual and fictional touch, the place where a language flicks channels / Alys Longley -- The treatment: writing a choreography (that has already happened) as a film (that hasn't yet been made) / Jennifer Lacey -- Invitation: choreoreading EXOXE / Simo Kellokumpu -- Part 2. Practices of writing that choreograph -- Letter to Saint Hildegard of Bingen / Lynda Gaudreau -- Logging: expedition and encounter / Amaara Raahem -- Notes on betrayal / Martin Hargreaves -- Part 3. Choreography as writing with -- Cicatrix Textus II / Marie Fahlin -- Choreo-graphic writing -- Towards more-than-one means of inscription / Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil -- The choreographic politics of a staircase / Kirsi Heimonen and Leena Rouhiainen -- Choreographic aftermath / Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton, Chrysa Parkinson and Leena Rouhiainen.

"A new contribution to studies in choreography, Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance, focuses upon language and writing-based approaches to choreographing from the perspectives of artists and researchers active in the Nordic and Oceanic contexts. Through the contributions of fifteen dance-artists, choreographers, dramaturges, writers, interdisciplinary artists and artist-researchers, the volume highlights diverse textual choreographic processes and outcomes arguing for their relevance to present-day practices of expanded choreography. The anthology introduces some Western trends related to utilizing writing, text and language in choreographic processes. In its focus on art-making processes, it likewise offers insight into how performance can be transcribed into writing, how practices of writing choreograph and how choreography can be a process of writing with. Readers, such as dancers, choreographers, students in higher education of these fields as well as researchers in choreography, gain understanding about different experimental forms of writing forwarded by diverse choreographers and how writing is the motional organisation of images, signs, words and texts. The volume presents a new strand in expanded choreography and acts as inspiration for its continued evolution that engenders new adaptations between language, writing and choreography. Ideal for students, scholars and researchers of choreography and dance studies"-- Provided by publisher.