{"title":"Astrochoreography","authors":"T. Paraha","doi":"10.1386/chor_00020_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"One of the alluring aspects of choreography is the obscurity of its strategies and its propensity to evoke speculative movement-thinking. As artistic research that is intuitively and critically developed from my physical location in Aotearoa New Zealand, astrochoreography evolves its\n aesthetics, theories and strategies in close observation of a Southern Hemispheric night sky. Drawing materials from deep space, the choreographic body becomes more than human in its genealogies of practice and live performance. This essay proposes an entanglement between the astral and artistic,\n cosmic and choreographic, engaging speculative theories of darkness, performance writing and global astrophysics.","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Choreographic Practices","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00020_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"DANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
One of the alluring aspects of choreography is the obscurity of its strategies and its propensity to evoke speculative movement-thinking. As artistic research that is intuitively and critically developed from my physical location in Aotearoa New Zealand, astrochoreography evolves its
aesthetics, theories and strategies in close observation of a Southern Hemispheric night sky. Drawing materials from deep space, the choreographic body becomes more than human in its genealogies of practice and live performance. This essay proposes an entanglement between the astral and artistic,
cosmic and choreographic, engaging speculative theories of darkness, performance writing and global astrophysics.
期刊介绍:
Choreographic Practices operates from the principle that dance embodies ideas and can be productively enlivened when considered as a mode of critical and creative discourse. This double-blind peer-reviewed journal provides a platform for sharing choreographic practices, critical inquiry and debate. Placing an emphasis on processes and practices over products, this journal seeks to engender dynamic relationships between theory and practice, choreographer and scholar, so that these distinctions may be shifted and traversed. Choreographic Practices will encompass a wide range of methodologies and critical perspectives such that interdisciplinary processes in performance can be understood as they intersect with other territories in the arts and beyond (for example, cultural studies, psychology, phenomenology, geography, philosophy and economics). In this way, the journal will open up the nature and scope of dance practice as research and draw together diverse bodies of knowledge and ways of knowing to illuminate an emerging and vibrant research area.