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Choreographer's Handbook [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 236 pages, height x width: 198x129 mm, weight: 600 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2010
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415555299
  • ISBN-13: 9780415555296
Citas grāmatas par šo tēmu:
  • Formāts: Hardback, 236 pages, height x width: 198x129 mm, weight: 600 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2010
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415555299
  • ISBN-13: 9780415555296
Citas grāmatas par šo tēmu:
On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking"

On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis"

A Choreographers Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher Jonathan Burrows explains how its possible to navigate a course through this complex process.

It is a stunning reflection on a personal practice and professional journey, and draws upon five years of workshop discussions, led by Burrows.

Burrows open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of exercises, meditations, principles and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process.

It is a book for anyone interested in making performance, at whatever level and in whichever style.

Recenzijas

'it proposes clear, but simultaneously cryptic advices applicable to a broad church of performance and dance making-dilemas. Well worth ordering' Tim Etchells, Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment

'it is a workshop in the form of a book, which aims to help choreographers and dancers in articulating and fine-tuning their own ways of working' Jeroen Peeters, CORPUS 'It proposes clear, but simultaneously cryptic advices applicable to a broad church of performance and dance making-dilemas. Well worth ordering' Tim Etchells, Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment

'The book covers thematic topics such as 'Collaboration', 'Material' and 'Mentoring' in playful ways, making bold statements but also cheekily suggesting that the opposite may also be true. It is a thought-provoking read, but also a useful manual on approaching performance for teachers, students and practitioners, that attempts to go beneath the layers of performing and making performance works.' - Emma Meehan, Dance Notes

Preface xi
Dancing/Principles
1(4)
Material
5(2)
Habits
7(1)
Repetition
8(3)
Repetition
11(2)
Repetition
13(11)
Improvisation / Cut and paste / Choreography
24(4)
Form
28(1)
Exploration / Risk
29(1)
Subject / Inspiration / Stealing / Familiar movement / Choreography / Referencing other sources / Self-expression
30(7)
Contract / Performance space / Language / Choreography
37(4)
Breaking the rules
41(2)
Research / How and what? / Dramaturgy / Theory / Curiosity
43(6)
Interview / Unfinished business / Questions / Principles
49(2)
Financial limitations / Studios / Funding applications
51(3)
Preparation / Rehearsal schedule / Heaviness
54(4)
Collaboration / Audience
58(3)
Originality / Paradox
61(5)
Technique / Parrot on your shoulder / Authenticity / Daily practice / Dancing / Style / Fiddling
66(10)
Virtuosity
76(2)
Hoarding / Beginnings
78(3)
Endings
81(2)
Keeping it going / Pacing
83(4)
Dub reggae / Rate of change / Simple material / Desperation
87(4)
Stillness and silence / Fear of being boring
91(2)
Minimal and maximal
93(2)
Does it work? / Showings / Mentoring
95(4)
Other bodies / States
99(3)
Distracting the self / Paradox / Choreography / Performance / Electric guitars
102(5)
Predictable and unpredictable / Expectation
107(2)
Narrative / Ballet / Continuity
109(4)
Continuity / Sectional pieces / Material / Make six things / Choreography / Flow / Relation
113(6)
Relation / Solos, duos, trios, quartets / Ideas
119(4)
Relation / Time / Rhythm
123(5)
Time
128(7)
Abstract dance
135(3)
Counterpoint / Formal elements / Difference
138(3)
Scores / Studios / Improvisation
141(11)
Chance / Empty hands / Gamut of movements / Limitations / Laborious work / Philosophy
152(5)
Place or space?
157(2)
Audience / Facing the front / Confrontation / Humour / Failure
159(6)
Audience
165(3)
Performance / Principles
168(4)
The marketplace / Earning a living / Administrating the work / Commissions
172(8)
Music / Collaboration / Silence
180(5)
Text
185(3)
Lighting / Technicians / Collaboration / Costumes / Shoes or no shoes? / Set design / Nudity
188(8)
Titles
196(2)
Filming / History / Collaboration / Mirrors / Human-scale
198(6)
Hierarchies / Dancer or choreographer? / In it or out of it? / Who owns what?
204(4)
How can I simplify all of this?
208(1)
Forget all this
209(1)
Bibliography 210(3)
Thanks 213(3)
Biography of the author 216(1)
Index 217
Jonathan Burrows is a choreographer whose main focus is an ongoing body of pieces with the composer Matteo Fargion, with whom he continues to perform around the world. The two men are co-produced by BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen, PACT Zollverein Essen and Sadler's Wells Theatre London. Burrows is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. His A Choreographer's Handbook has sold over 15,000 copies since its publication in 2010.