Improvisation, Meeting of Ettrick and Yarrow
Dancer Tim Rubidge. Photo Kate Foster
Approaching Choreography is an attempt to articulate a more ecological approach to dance making and choreography through the frames of Placing and Perspective; Pathways Through; Meetings and Points of Contact and Working with Materials and Sites.
It emerged through a series of improvisations and conversations in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland with dancers Merav Israel and Tim Rubidge, environmental artist Kate Foster and writer/researcher Dr. Wallace Heim.
Improvisations, Ettrick Water, May 2014
Photo Kate Foster
The idea was produced into a small booklet as part of a collaborative Speculative Ground Project with anthropologists Jen Clarke and Rachel Harkness for the Anthropological Association Decennial Conference, in Edinburgh June 2014.
You can download a PDF of the booklet here:Approaching Choreography
Approaching Choreography is a Tabula Rasa collaboration.
Text and idea: Claire Pencak
Design: Felicity Bristow
Video Images: Kate Foster
Dancer: Tiim Rubidge
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