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Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo
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Abstract 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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
dance; creativity; process
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
William Forsythe; Choreography; Practice Theory; Practice Turn
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
339 p.
Series
Critical Dance Studies, 60
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839455883
ISSN
2747-3139
ISBN
978-3-8394-5588-3
Status
Published Version; reviewed