Notes
1 Originally identified as ‘Sleep’, this project was funded by a $48,000 grant from the Australia Council, and premiered at Athenaeum II in Melbourne in November 1998. Danced by Rebecca Hilton, Trevor Patrick, David Tyndall and Ros Warby; the Live Music mix was led by Jad McAdam; Set Design by Christopher Bruce; Costume Design by Anna Tregloan; and Lighting Design by Damien Cooper.
2 My interviews with Australian choreographers and their mentors were funded by the Australian Research Council, 2006–8.
3 For an introduction to Lucy Guerin's approach to ‘the body in the world’ and an interview with Guerin, see Brannigan and Baxter 2014.
4 Trained in Adelaide, Guerin danced with choreographers Nanette Hassell and Russell Dumas in Australia before moving to New York in 1990. Dumas introduced Guerin to Rudner and she danced also with Tere O'Connor Dance and Bebe Miller Company. In 1997 she returned to Melbourne and in 2002 she formed her company Lucy Guerin Inc.
5 Following a collaboration with the German painter, Ad Reinhardt, Guerin describes her response to his black canvasses as the opposite of the human body ‘so loaded with meaning’; for her ‘the idea of black or negation or nothingness’ leads to a confrontation with the ‘non-representational’ in choreography (Felber and Gyger 1991: 2).
6 Many dance researchers reject the inscription of dance in terms of writing, such as the term ‘choreography’ suggests, and instead prefer the notion of ‘dance-making’ (Anna Pakes) or ‘expert-intuitive processing’ (Susan Melrose), while others argue for gendered differences in the phenomenology of choreography (Susan Leigh Foster), as presented in Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Contemporary Choreography (Butterworth and Wildschut 2009). Dance theorist Andre Lepecki offers a concise summation when he argues that ‘rethinking the subject in terms of the body is precisely the task of choreography’ (2006: 5).
7 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Fact Sheet, http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/restless_legs/detail_restless_legs.htm accessed 23 August 2015.