Dancing Off the Page: Integrating Performance, Choreography, Analysis and Notation/Documentation

This book does two things: it explores ideas of style in dance performance and choreography, and it shows how the theory and practice of dance study can be successfully integrated, using labanotation as a tool.

The book falls into two main parts:

Part 1
Six short choreographic studies, including those by Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Jonathan Burrows, Mark Morris, and Jennifer Jackson, notated in two levels of difficulty.
Ideas for working with the studies choreographically, performatively and analytically.
A commissioned music score designed to accompany each study (score and CD, included in the book).
Notes on the structure and style of each study in general, and relating to the work of the specific choreographer on whose output it is based.
Pointers to other choreographers for the reader to explore by way of comparison.
A list of references to aid further research into these choreographers.
A list of alternative music suggestions to experiment with.
A glossary of notation symbols and terms (with each study) to aid the novice reader (and teacher).

Part 2
Three scholarly essays on performance, choreography and documentation by Bonnie Rowell, Sarah Whatley and Rachel Duerden

Rachel Duerden is Senior Lecturer in Dance at Manchester Metropolitan University

Neil Fisher is a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPS) and a freelance dance artist/choreographer.