Making and Breaking, Failing and Faking

By Morven Macbeth
Source: Flesh and Text , pp 300-304
Publication Date: April 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835950715_48
Language: English

Morven Macbeth writes about her experience as a new collaborator with Bodies in Flight in making and performing Life Class, discussing the company's concern with the relationship between text and choreography, as well as everydayness, and the process of co-creating with the eldlerly dancer participants.

Keywords: co-creating with participants ; collaborative performance making ; cross-artform collaboration in theatre ; devising with music and sound artists

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Bailes, Sara Jane (2010), Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure, London: Routledge.
[Google Scholar]
Samuel, Julia (2017), Grief Works, London: Penguin Life.
[Google Scholar]
Van Der Kolk, Bessel (2014), The Body Keeps the Score, New York and London: Penguin Books.
[Google Scholar]
Cave, Nick and O'Hagan, Seán (2022), Faith, Hope and Carnage, Edinburgh and London: Canongate Books.
[Google Scholar]
hooks, bell (2001), All About Love: New Visions, New York: HarperCollins.
[Google Scholar]

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