As if for the First Time

Graeme reflects on his long-term relationship with Bodies in Flight's process of approaching, developing and embodying performance material, particularly the relationship between text and movement, how to approach new writing and find a way to express poetic text, as well as how to approach movement material based on everyday habitual gestures, and the performer's responsibility to the audience.

Keywords: cross-artform collaboration ; embodying new choreography performer-audience relationships ; embodying new writing ; performing as openness ; the performer's responsibilities