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.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 342
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 March 2022
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837655889
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Elizabeth Waterhouse, born in 1979, is a postdoc at the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Bern. She received her doctoral degree in dance studies from the Graduate School of the Arts at the University of Bern/Bern University of the Arts (HKB). Recently she was director of the project "Motion Together" at the Free University of Berlin. Waterhouse danced for nearly a decade 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 dance, music, design, and visual art.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
List of Illustrations 9
Preface 11
Introduction 17
Introduction to Part I: Art World 45
Chapter 1: Ensemble: William Forsythe & Team 47
Chapter 2: The Institutions of Ballett Frankfurt & The Forsythe Company 65
Chapter 3: The Dancers 85
Chapter 4: The Dancers' Practices 107
Chapter 5: Duo's Art World 121
Introduction to Part II: Movement 133
Chapter 6: The Movement of Showerhead 137
Chapter 7: Movement Material & Relations 159
Chapter 8: Entrainment 171
Chapter 9: Movement Profile of Duo 187
Introduction to Part III: Creation 213
Chapter 10: Creating Duo (1996) 221
Chapter 11: Re-Creating Duo (1996-2016) 265
Conclusion: Choreography as Creative Organization 289
Bibliography 299
Appendix 317
