Contemporary Choreography

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