Writing Choreography

Leena Rouhiainen is Head of the Research Institute of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland, and Professor of Artistic Research at the university's Theatre Academy. She is a dancer and choreographer whose research interests lie in experimental writing, phenomenology and artistic research.

A new contribution to studies in choreography, Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance focuses upon language and writing-based approaches to choreographing from the perspectives of artists and researchers active in the Nordic and Oceanic contexts.

1. IntroductionLeena Rouhiainen, Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton and Chrysa Parkinson 2. Motifs and Insights: Textual Choreography, Dance Studies and Local Conditions in FinlandLeena Rouhiainen and Kirsi HeimonenPart 1: Transcribing Performance into Writing3. Talking, Dancing, Hearing, Seeing, Writing, Reading: notes on plenty serious TALK TALKVicki Van Hout4. the place where the actual and fictional touch, the place where a language flicks channelsalys longley 5. The Treatment: writing a choreography (that has already happened) as a film (that hasn't yet been made)Jennifer Lacey6. Invitation: Choreoreading EXOX¿Simo KellokumpuPart 2: Practices of Writing that Choreograph7. Letter to Saint Hildegard of BingenLynda Gaudreau8. Logging: Expedition and EncounterAmaara Raahem9. Notes On BetrayalMartin HargreavesPart 3: Choreography as Writing With10. Cicatrix Textus IIMarie Fahlin11. Choreo-graphic Writing - Towards More-Than-One Means of InscriptionEmma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil12. The Choreographic Politics of a StaircaseKirsi Heimonen and Leena Rouhiainen13. Choreographic AftermathKirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton, Chrysa Parkinson and Leena Rouhiainen