On choreography: 'Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking'On rules: 'Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis'The updated and revised edition of A Choreographer's Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, questions, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned choreographer, teacher and writer Jonathan Burrows explains how it's possible to navigate a course through this complex process.It is a stunning reflection on a personal practice and professional journey, and draws upon many years of workshop discussions, led by Burrows.Burrows' open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of principles, exercises, meditations and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process.It is a book for anyone interested in making performance, at whatever level and in whichever style.
On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking"On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis"A Choreographer's Handbook invites the read
On choreography: `Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking'On rules: `Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis'A Choreographer's Handbook invites the read
Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image ma