General Introduction: Studying contemporary choreography Section 1. Processes of Making Section Introduction 1. Choreography through a Somatic Lens 2. Dancing identities: How dancers' embodied knowledge underscores creative methods in contemporary dancemaking 3. 'Finding the light': Curiosity, texts and contemporary ballet in Helen Pickett's The Crucible (2019) 4. "If you don't keep it open, you close": Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Betroffenheit (2017) and the emotional and psychological implications of theatre dance 5. Creating Future Memories, NOW: FORWARD DANCE COMPANY by LOFFT - DAS THEATER and the reimagining of disability, diversity, and cultural memory Section 2. Culture, Contexts and Intersections Section Introduction 6.
Maybe You Could Close Your Eyes While I Dance: Age, Ageing, and in/visibility as choreographic drivers in Acting our Age 7. Recomposing Thai Dance for Today's World: Three Modes of Contemporary Choreographic Practice 8. Gaga's Aspirational Politics: Passepartout Bodies and Choreographic Passports 9. Dancing Culture, Talking Global 10. Choreography in Ghana: evolving methods and techniques 11. Choreography as Research: Iteration, Object, Context Section 3. Choreography, Politics and Power Section Introduction 12. Vulnerable practice: Thinking through discomfort and precarity in Project O's Voodoo (2017) 13.
Dancing Simply together: an example transdisciplinary research in arts and sciences 14. Prize-winning dances; choreography and the competition stage 15. Multifarious identity: Barbardian street dance on the concert stage 16. Moving into Action: change-making through dance activism Section 4. Choreography and Interdisciplinary Arts Practice Section Introduction 17. Choreography as a practice of border crossing: ten insights into embracing the impossible in interdisciplinary dance practice 18. HOMECOMING 19. Beyond Dancing: The Choreographic Turn in the 2022 Taiwan Arts Biennial 20.
Dance in the Museum 21. From Improvements to Care: gardening as choreographic dwelling Section 5. Technology, Transmission and Immersion Section Introduction 22. Unlocking Touch 23. Virtual Reality and Dance-Making: unbounding choreographic practice from the realm of real-time performance 24. Social Media and Choreographic Practice: Tools for collaboration, co-creation and creative practice 25. Shifts in Embodiment: Choreographic practice for Virtual Reality Section 6. Choreographic Environments and Interventions Section Introduction 26.
Navigating Diasporic 'Third Spaces' and (New) Borderlands through Dance and Choreography 27. Dancing Places: Sites, Situations, and Taking-Place 28. Sensóriagrafia in Public Spaces: Dance and words as a relational sensory, poetic intervention 29. A Reservoir of Gestures, or Choreography is Relational 30. Unlocking Liberation: Choreographing the 'Club State'.