What score? Pre-choreography and post-choreography

ABSTRACT

This article introduces a brief historical reflection on the current reception or production of dance and ‘choreographic objects’ in venues of documentation/exhibition (museum) and experimentation (laboratory), reviewing the curatorial direction of ‘Move: Choreographic You’ (Hayward Gallery) and Xavier Le Roy's ‘Retrospective’ (Fundació Antoni Tàpies). Previewing the artists’ writings in this issue of IJPADM, the author then comments on some of the key terms in the current ‘mobilization of the term choreography’, emphasizing the remarkable interdisciplinary expansion of dance research and the concerted efforts that are under way to document, analyse, display and propel choreographic processes and languages to a much wider audience, thus also making available a diverse range of unique methods of scoring, recording, teaching and conceptualizing movement within an expanding international culture of performance and mediated arts (with the role of online dance platforms and archives gaining an ever greater significance).

KEYWORDS:

• exhibition
• laboratory
• choreographic object
• publishing
• dance research
• post-choreography