Moving Writing

This exchange, conducted over the period of a year, examines the relation between choreography and language, movement and writing, in relation to the aesthetics of contemporary dance. Moving from the authors' different perspectives as a dancer and choreographer, and as a writer and curator, the dialogue questions the place of writing practice within dance creation, and the relative forces of corporeal and poetic expression. Turning over these questions in their different ways, the authors engage with the relations between the spontaneous and the pre-scripted, freedom and constraint, presence, authority and the free play of meanings.