Artist-led, artist-used: experiences at Coventry's Summer Dancing 2009

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Pollard, Niki, Coe, Katye, Collard-Stokes, Gemma, Le Quesne, Lizzy and Moran, Joe 2009. Artist-led, artist-used: experiences at Coventry's Summer Dancing 2009. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices. 1 (2), pp. 199-214. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.1.2.199_1
AuthorsPollard, Niki, Coe, Katye, Collard-Stokes, Gemma, Le Quesne, Lizzy and Moran, Joe
Abstract

This multi-authored article arises from an artist-led festival of dance and probes what is entailed by the commitment to an artist-led structure. The festival, Summer Dancing 2009 in Coventry, is becoming significant in the United Kingdom as a gathering, both regionally and nationally, of practitioners whose expertise is grounded in what might be termed somatic dance practices. It is proposed that artist-led may indicate an aim to be led by artists for other artists; that is, for an event or organization to be artist-used and useful. With the question of artists' use at the fore, the article reports on a festival panel debate and on a project of practitioner-focused writing, examining how a dance practitioner may be stimulated, challenged or find connections to an existing practice.

KeywordsChoreography; Dance; Artist-led; Somatics
Year2009
JournalJournal of Dance & Somatic Practices
Journal citation1 (2), pp. 199-214
PublisherIntellect
ISSN17571871
1757188X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.1.2.199_1
Web address (URL)http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1757-1871&volume=1&issue=2&spage=199
http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622444
hdl:10545/622444
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Publication dates01 Dec 2009
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Deposited23 Mar 2018
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