Choreography and verbatim theatre : dancing words / Jess McCormack.
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TextPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Description: 128 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783319920184 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Choreography | Dance -- Production and direction | Dance -- Technique | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 792.8'2 Summary: How might spoken words be translated into choreography? This book addresses the field of verbatim dance-theatre, around which there is currently limited existing scholarly writing. Grounded in extensive research, the project combines dance studies and performance studies theory, detailed analysis of professional choreographic work and examples of experimental practice to then employ the framework of translation studies in order to consider what a focus on movement and an attempt to dance/move other people's words can offer to the field of verbatim theatre. It investigates ways to understand, articulate and engage in the process of choreographing movement as a response to verbatim spoken language.
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How might spoken words be translated into choreography? This book addresses the field of verbatim dance-theatre, around which there is currently limited existing scholarly writing. Grounded in extensive research, the project combines dance studies and performance studies theory, detailed analysis of professional choreographic work and examples of experimental practice to then employ the framework of translation studies in order to consider what a focus on movement and an attempt to dance/move other people's words can offer to the field of verbatim theatre. It investigates ways to understand, articulate and engage in the process of choreographing movement as a response to verbatim spoken language.
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