Closer to the body: reflections on skript and extracts from collected writings
Bacon, Jane and Midgelow, Vida L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0232-2209
(2014)
Closer to the body: reflections on skript and extracts from collected writings.
Choreographic Practices, 5
(1)
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pp. 73-94.
ISSN 2040-5669
[Article]
(doi:10.1386/chor.5.1.73_1)
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Abstract
In this two part article we reflect upon the experience of writing-dancing with audiences and artists in the context of our installation work skript (commissioned by Dance4, Nottingham, 2013). Part one considers how skript engages embodied, felt sense, improvisational and collaborative modalities in relation to the act of writing. As such we consider the ways in which the particular interface of language and embodiment, which is the focus of skript, might allow a knowing of ‘something’ otherwise – be that something a sense of our own bodies, a dance work, a performance experience or perhaps just that moment in time. In part two we share extracts of some of the writings that were
collaboratively generated as part of skript. We focus on the work of three performance/movement artists: Guy Dartnell, Miguel Pereira and Rosalind Crisp. These dance-writings are published as they were written in real time, in the moment of
engagement. They are edited only for length and at times to correct typographical errors (but only if the errors seemed to disturb the flow of the ideas) rather than to simply ‘tidy’ the text or the grammar. The writings are relational, improvisational and at times fragmentary. For more writings see: www.writing-dancing.blogspot.com.
Item Type: | Article |
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Research Areas: | A. > School of Media and Performing Arts > Performing Arts > Dance group |
Item ID: | 14612 |
Notes on copyright: | - author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
- author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) (from listing on SHERPA/RoMEO) |
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Depositing User: | Vida Midgelow |
Date Deposited: | 22 Apr 2015 12:00 |
Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 23:44 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/14612 |
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