Writing Choreography

<P>A new contribution to studies in choreography, <EM>Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance </EM>focuses upon language and writing-based approaches to choreographing from the perspectives of artists and researchers active in the Nordic and Oceanic contexts.</P><P>Through the contributions of 15 dance¿artists, choreographers, dramaturges, writers, interdisciplinary artists and artist¿researchers, the volume highlights diverse textual choreographic processes and outcomes arguing for their relevance to present-day practices of expanded choreography. The anthology introduces some Western trends related to utilizing writing, text and language in choreographic processes. In its focus on art-making processes, it likewise offers insight into how performance can be transcribed into writing, how practices of writing choreograph and how choreography can be a process of writing with. Readers, such as dancers, choreographers, students in higher education of these fields as well as