Most danceworks, in my experience, seem to emerge from unanswered questions from the previous one and so it was with Web, the short piece that I made last year to be toured exclusively to schools and colleges and which was to act as a period of research for myself and the company.
Read the full article here: In Search of a Phantom
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Bridges and buildings, DNA, the periodic table, flora and fauna, machines, circuits, human beings and the societies of which they are part, even thoughts and ideas – all can be understood as particular structures which are part of our world and our experience of it. Yet the notion of structure, whether organic or inorganic, natural or artificial, is far more intangible. Too often the implication is of something rigid and complete, yet structure and the process of structuring can be both open and dynamic.
The eight essays in this collection consider structure as an inclusive, open-ended theme offering itself to interpretation within many disciplines of the sciences, arts and humanities. Each essay represents an attempt to ponder and assess the role of structure in a particular discipline by an author eminent in that field. In doing so, the essays become acts of ‘structuring structure’, true to the rich, dynamic nature of the topic.
Read the chapter here: The Body in Space – Structures in Dance
Table of contents:
Discussion of 1991-1994 choreographies: Making of maps, Romance… with footnotes, and Raid.
Reprinted from: Border Tensions: Dance and Discourse, Proceedings of the Fifth Study of Dance Conference (University of Surrey, Guildford, 1995).
Read the full paper here: Imaginary Homelands
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As a choreographer my work is described as an East West collaboration because I work with composers who are not Indian. The fact that we both share a common British culture is never highlighted. The assumption is that “East”, myself, must be a simple, unchanging essence which stands for tradition and the Past and “West”, the composer, represents change, modernity and dynamism.
Read the full paper here: Text Context Dance
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As a Bharatha Natyam dancer, ‘multiculturalism’ is a word that I have got used to hearing, and no doubt like others of my colleagues, I often find myself the unprepared cog in the working out of this grand scheme. Facing thirty teenagers in an Indian classical dance class arranged by their school is only the tip of the iceberg in the constant fight to gain credibility for a different movement aesthetic in a predominantly insular culture.
Read the full chapter on the practicalities of multiculturalism: The Flexed Foot.
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