Platform Papers 25: Moving Across Disciplines - Dance in the Twenty-first Century

Brannigan, Erin
Platform Papers 25: Moving Across Disciplines - Dance in the Twenty-first Century

Platform Papers 25: Moving Across Disciplines - Dance in the Twenty-first Century

Brannigan, Erin

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PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2010

Taking the perspective of both dancer and critic, Erin Brannigan examines the increasing disciplinarity of contemporary Australian dance practice and discusses local developments in the context of global trends and their history. Such regulation is incongruous, she claims, in the face of the extraordinary cross-media diversity displayed by the leading choreographers abroad. The place of dance as a discrete discipline in both education and public performance has been hard won, but now the accelerating move towards collaboration with other art forms is challenging the old disciplines and confusing the received rules of critical discourse and public funding. Adaptability, openness, collaboration, inclusiveness—these are the terms that define a discipline that is a far cry from the closed, inward-looking, exclusive profile so often implied by the term 'contemporary dance'. How can the concept of 'technique' be refigured to enable the openness and collaboration now apparent in the profession? How can we embrace the extraordinary opportunities opened to artists by the digital moving image as a vehicle for dance?

Dr Erin Brannigan works in the fields of dance and film as an academic, curator and journalist. She was founding director in 1999 of the biennial ReelDance International Dance on Screen, and has curated programs for Melbourne and Sydney festivals. She writes on dance for the magazine RealTime.

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PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2010

Taking the perspective of both dancer and critic, Erin Brannigan examines the increasing disciplinarity of contemporary Australian dance practice and discusses local developments in the context of global trends and their history. Such regulation is incongruous, she claims, in the face of the extraordinary cross-media diversity displayed by the leading choreographers abroad. The place of dance as a discrete discipline in both education and public performance has been hard won, but now the accelerating move towards collaboration with other art forms is challenging the old disciplines and confusing the received rules of critical discourse and public funding. Adaptability, openness, collaboration, inclusiveness—these are the terms that define a discipline that is a far cry from the closed, inward-looking, exclusive profile so often implied by the term 'contemporary dance'. How can the concept of 'technique' be refigured to enable the openness and collaboration now apparent in the profession? How can we embrace the extraordinary opportunities opened to artists by the digital moving image as a vehicle for dance?

Dr Erin Brannigan works in the fields of dance and film as an academic, curator and journalist. She was founding director in 1999 of the biennial ReelDance International Dance on Screen, and has curated programs for Melbourne and Sydney festivals. She writes on dance for the magazine RealTime.

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Author:   Brannigan, Erin
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9780980798210


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