My Vancouver dance history : story, movement, communtiy / Peter Dickinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickinson, Peter, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Social aspects.

Dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

In the past decade, Vancouver dance has received tremendous acclaim nationally and internationally, as witnessed by the success of choreographer Crystal Pite and a rejuvenated Ballet BC. But this is only part of a vibrant and diverse story of contemporary movement practices in the city. In My Vancouver Dance History Peter Dickinson crafts an embodied narrative that focuses on his critical and creative collaborations with nine Vancouver-based dance artists and companies. Mixing interview excerpts with fieldwork descriptions of studio research and performance analysis, Dickinson draws on ten years of close observation to delve into the individual histories of select members of this community, while also relating the cumulative story of Vancouver dance production and performance as it has unfolded in the past decade. The voices of other invested participants interpolate this rich history, and chapters are interspersed with a series of "movement intervals" that reflect key moments in Dickinson's history as a spectator, scholar, and collaborator. In innovative ways, Dickinson suggests that when we pay attention to the larger social topography of dance practice - the sites that give rise to it, the labour that goes into it, and the professional friendships it engenders - we can properly understand dance's contributions to civic life.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Whose Dance History?

And: Time

Friendship’s Folds “Dancing Alone Together” with plastic orchid factory

And: Space

Walking and Talking and Laughing with Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg

And: Company

Between Sand and Water Butoh-ing on the Beach with Kokoro Dance

And: Festival

Like Is as Like Is Not Making (and Unmaking) Correspondences with Ziyian Kwan and Vanessa Goodman

And: Training

Putting Words in Motion with Rob Kitsos and Lesley Telford

And: Institutions

History Dances Whom? Gesturing toward Incompleteness with Justine A. Chambers and Alexa Mardon

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-0246-X

OCLC:

1135488557