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Author Identifier (ORCID)
Non-Traditional Research Output
Original Creative Work
Document Type
Non-Traditional Research Output
Date of Publication
1-1-2020
Research Statement
Research Background
Situated between dance performance and writing, ˆThe dancer in your hands is “a work of poetry that is also a novella; a body rendered in paper; a performance in words and typography” (Sam Fox – published review in Westerly). Drawn from research that questioned whether it was possible to ‘write like I dance’ via a methodological practice of double embodiment “not remaining within any one discipline, and not just combining disciplines, but crossing from discipline to discipline, to continually open and renew the very medium or ‘milieu’ within which we think. (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 255).
Research Contribution
The dancer in your hands <> invites a wider audience to contemporary dance in book form. It adds to a body of work that has lineage in feminist concrete poetry and performance by presenting performance through publication. A/Professor Marion Campbell (Deakin)wrote “Pollitt’s abstraction is powerfully embodied. It is imbued with agency. This wild abstraction is an assertion of identity and a physical presence in defiance of patriarchy; a constant occupying of place and position.”
Research Significance
Writing as dancing generates new creative texts written in the gap between the embodiment of professional dance practice and visual poetry. It has been reviewed in the Westerly as “a deeply absorbing book that advances dance as literature. Pollitt makes powerful contributions to discourses of feminism, positionality, sexuality, aesthetics and lived artistic practices”. https://westerlymag.com.au/the-dancer-in-your-hands/
Publisher
UWA Publishing
School
School of Education
RAS ID
36006
ISBN
9781760801472
Copyright
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Comments
Pollitt, J. (2020). The dancer in your hands. UWA Publishing. https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/the-dancer-in-your-hands