She writes like she dances: Response and radical impermanence in writing as dancing
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Choreographic Practices
Publisher
Intellect Discover
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
RAS ID
27536
Abstract
Through investigating writing as dancing, this work seeks to access, reveal and amplify the voice of danceras-writer in the production of new texts as embodied fictions. Harnessing processes of the response project and an emergent theory of radical impermanence, the dancer-as-writer is agent in inhabiting energetic states and scores practiced in dance improvisation to write like she dances. The provocation in this early catalogue of research is that the liveness of dance can potentially continue through, and be revealed in, the decision-making of writing; to make visible the dancer in a performance you can hold in your hands. The work in she writes like she dances is both an assertion of deep commitment to the liveness of improvisation, and a suspected betrayal.
DOI
10.1386/chor.8.2.199_1
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Pollitt, J. (2017). She writes like she dances: Response and radical impermanence in writing as dancing. Choreographic Practices, 8(2), 199-218. https://doi.org/10.1386/chor.8.2.199_1