Processing Choreography
Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo
1st Edition
Published on 23. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
342 pages
978-3-8376-5588-9 (ISBN)
Description
Told from the perspective of the dancers, »Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo« is an ethnography that reconstructs the dancers' activity within William Forsythe's Duo project. The book is written legibly for readers in dance studies, the social sciences, and dance practice. Considering how the choreography of Duo emerged through practice and changed over two decades of history (1996-2018), Elizabeth Waterhouse offers a nuanced picture of creative cooperation and institutionalized process. She presents a compelling vision of choreography as a nexus of people, im/material practices, contexts, and relations. As a former Forsythe dancer herself, the author provides novel insights into this choreographic community.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
45
17 s/w Abbildungen, 28 farbige Abbildungen
Klebebindung, 5 SW-Abbildungen, 46 Farbabbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-5588-9 (9783837655889)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
03/2022
1st Edition
transcript
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Person
Elizabeth Waterhouse, born in 1979, works as a postdoc at the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Bern. She received her doctorate within the Graduate School of the Arts at the University of Bern/HKB and was director of the project 'Motion Together' at the Free University of Berlin. Waterhouse danced from 2004-2013 in Ballett Frankfurt/The Forsythe Company. Her activities range from research of dance practice and documentation, to artistic projects developed collaboratively in the mediums of performance, dance, music, design, and visual art.
Content
Preface; Introduction; Ensemble: William Forsythe & Team; The Institutions of Ballett Frankfurt & The Forsythe Company; The Dancers; The Dancers' Practices; Duo's Art World; The Movement of Showerhead; Movement Material & Relations; Entrainment; Movement Profile of Duo; Creating Duo (1996); Re-Creating Duo (19962016); Conclusion: Choreography as Creative Organization; Bibliography; Appendix.