Jo Butterworth was previously Professor of Dance Studies at the University of Malta.

Vicky Hunter is a practitioner-researcher and Visiting Research Fellow in Site Dance at Bath Spa University, UK.

General Introduction: Studying contemporary choreography

Section 1. Processes of Making

Section Introduction

1. Choreography through a Somatic Lens

2. Dancing identities: How dancers' embodied knowledge underscores creative methods in contemporary dancemaking

3. 'Finding the light': Curiosity, texts and contemporary ballet in Helen Pickett's The Crucible (2019)

4. "If you don't keep it open, you close": Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Betroffenheit (2017) and the emotional and psychological implications of theatre dance

5. Creating Future Memories, NOW: FORWARD DANCE COMPANY by LOFFT - DAS THEATER and the reimagining of disability, diversity, and cultural memory

Section 2. Culture, Contexts and Intersections

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6. Maybe You Could Close Your Eyes While I Dance: Age, Ageing, and in/visibility as choreographic drivers in Acting our Age

7. Recomposing Thai Dance for Today's World: Three Modes of Contemporary Choreographic Practice

8. Gaga's Aspirational Politics: Passepartout Bodies and Choreographic Passports

9. Dancing Culture, Talking Global

10. Choreography in Ghana: evolving methods and techniques

11. Choreography as Research: Iteration, Object, Context

Section 3. Choreography, Politics and Power

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12. Vulnerable practice: Thinking through discomfort and precarity in Project O's Voodoo (2017)

13. Dancing Simply together: an example transdisciplinary research in arts and sciences

14. Prize-winning dances; choreography and the competition stage

15. Multifarious identity: Barbardian street dance on the concert stage

16. Moving into Action: change-making through dance activism

Section 4. Choreography and Interdisciplinary Arts Practice

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17. Choreography as a practice of border crossing: ten insights into embracing the impossible in interdisciplinary dance practice

18. HOMECOMING

19. Beyond Dancing: The Choreographic Turn in the 2022 Taiwan Arts Biennial

20. Dance in the Museum

21. From Improvements to Care: gardening as choreographic dwelling

Section 5. Technology, Transmission and Immersion

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22. Unlocking Touch

23. Virtual Reality and Dance-Making: unbounding choreographic practice from the realm of real-time performance

24. Social Media and Choreographic Practice: Tools for collaboration, co-creation and creative practice

25. Shifts in Embodiment: Choreographic practice for Virtual Reality

Section 6. Choreographic Environments and Interventions

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26. Navigating Diasporic 'Third Spaces' and (New) Borderlands through Dance and Choreography

27. Dancing Places: Sites, Situations, and Taking-Place

28. Sensóriagrafia in Public Spaces: Dance and words as a relational sensory, poetic intervention

29. A Reservoir of Gestures, or Choreography is Relational

30. Unlocking Liberation: Choreographing the 'Club State'