Framemakers: Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change
Framemakers: Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change
edited by Jeffrey Gormly
published by Daghdha Dance Company
A collection of essays from a diverse group of thinkers, many leaders in their own fields, exploring the notion of choreography, as the art and aesthetics of change. Established practitioners re-imagine their own fields, i.e., theology, social dreaming and organizational change, ethics, community building as choreographic endeavours. Meanwhile philosophers and cultural theorists lay out new ground on which this contemporary notion of choreography can be predicated, or situate the artistic initiative in a global political and ecological context, while bringing a critical eye to bear on perceptual and conceptual deficits in the framing and reality-making procedures of the dominant rational-scientific worldview. Finally, a number of genuinely ground-breaking essays actively produce possible applications of this aesthetic refinement of cybernetics into choreography, producing supple articulations of a new vision of governance. Including original poems and artworks, this is a unique, stimulating and super-discipinary publication.
Framemakers is an ongoing enquiry into a world understood in terms of relations, order, and ecologies. Daghdha Dance Company hosts a new kind of thinking space, one that invites citizens to enquire into the deeper structures and dynamics that bind our worlds, in which we have our being, together. Framemakers poses questions of how we move and are moved; how our assumptions frame our perception of “the way things are”; how we know what we think we know and organise bodies of knowledge to impose our rights, wrongs, needs and desires on our environment; how we can and do imaginatively order and re-order aspects of our personal, social, cultural and political lives. Framemakers expands a metaphor: Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change; a new understanding of choreography as a creative act of setting humans, actions, ideas, and thoughts in relation to one another, to create or reveal order, channel energies, explore dynamics and create conditions for something to happen.
ISBN-10: 0955858518
ISBN-13: 978-0955858512
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