Books
Grove, R.,
Stevens, C., & McKechnie, S., (eds.), Thinking
in Four Dimensions: Creativity and Cognition in Contemporary
Dance, Melbourne University Publishing, print on demand
vii + 211 pp., also electronic version including moving images,
Melbourne,
2005
Contents
- Acknowledgements iii
Introduction – Robin Grove and Shirley McKechnie pp. 1-8
Prologue: Two Traditions – Robin Grove 9
1. Why Do We Like to Dance and Sing? – Stephen Malloch 14
2. Light and Shade in Communicative Musicality: A commentary
on Stephen Malloch’s ‘Why do we like to dance and
sing?’ – Agnes Petocz 29
3. Show Me What You Just Did – Robin Grove 37
4. Moving and Thinking Together in Dance – John Sutton 50
5. Navigating Fine Lines – Sue Healey 57
6. Dancing Memes, Minds and Designs – Shirley McKechnie 81
7. In the Air: Extracts from an Interview with Chrissie Parrott
Interviewer: Shirley McKechnie. Edited by Michelle Potter 95
8. Observer Response to Contemporary Dance – Renee
Glass 107
9. Growing Choreography – Mark Gordon 122
10. Dance Perception and the Brain – Ivar Hagendoorn 137
11.Cognitive Science and the ‘Dancing Brain’ – Ryan
D. Tweney 149
12. Trans-disciplinary Approaches to Research into Creation,
Performance, and Appreciation of Contemporary Dance – Catherine
Stevens 154
13. Chronology of Creating a Dance: Anna Smith’s Red
Rain – Catherine
Stevens 169
14. Unspoken Dialogues: A Response – Hilary Crampton 188
Appendix 1: Some Outcomes (Publications 1999–2004) 200
Appendix 2: Creating Red Rain (choreographer Anna Smith’s
notes) 203
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Chapter synopses available online at
- http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/ebooks/0-522-85144-4/chapter_synopses.html
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Bibliography available online at
- http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/ebooks/0-522-85144-4/index.html
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Full-colour galleries online at:
- Videos – http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/ebooks/0-522-85144-4/videos.html
Images – http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/ebooks/0-522-85144-4/images.html
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Print-Based
Journals and Conference Papers
Adams,
Neil,” Visual Perception, Spatiality,
and Imagery: Investigating a Paradigm for Choreographic Realisation
and Appreciation”, Dance Rebooted: Initialising the
Grid: Publications and proceedings, Ausdance National, Canberra, 2004
(in press).
Glass,
Renee, ‘Observer Response to Contemporary
Dance’,
University of Western Sydney, MARCS 2003
Grove,
R. 'In the House of Breathings', in Papers and Proceedings
of Australia New
Zealand Dance Research Society Forum, Susan
Graham (ed.) Auckland University of Technology, October 1999
Grove,
R. 'Making Ends Meet: Cultural Identities and World Dance',
Sixth Annual Conference of the Korean Dance Society
for the Future,
Seoul, 1999
Grove,
R. 'Knowing What's Good for Us', in Papers and Proceedings
of Australia New Zealand Dance Research Society
Forum,
Susan Graham (ed.) Auckland University of Technology,
October 2001
Grove,
R. 'Unspoken Knowledges', in Lansdown, R. (ed.), The Critical
Review, James Cook University, Cairns,
no.
41, 2001,
pp.1-10
Grove,
R. ‘A Night Out’ in Best
Australian Essays of 2002, Peter Craven, (ed.) Melbourne
2003, pp. 118-129
Grove,
R. ‘A Slant of her
Own; Laurel Martyn, Portrait of the Artist’ in
Meanjin 62; 2, 2003, pp.188-195
Grove,
R., “Changing
Directions: Mindful Bodies and Embodied Minds” in
Frois, Joao Pedro, et al. (eds.) Art and
Science: Proceedings of the xviii Congress of
the International
Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Calouste
Gulbenkiian Foundation, Lisbon,
September 13-16, 2004, pp. 165-168
Heaven,
M. ‘The
Choreographer-Performer Collaboration’.
Unpublished MA Thesis, University of Melbourne,
2000
McKechnie,
S. 'Unspoken Knowledge: Thinking in Space and Time', in Papers
and Proceedings
of
the Conference
of the
Asian Pacific
Confederation for Arts Education (ASPACAE)
Lasalle-SIA, Singapore, July 1999
McKechnie,
S. ‘Seasons, Cycles, and Patterns in the Mind.'
Occasional paper, 30th Symposium, Academy
of the Humanities, Canberra, November 1999
McKechnie,
S. and Grove, R., 'Thinking Bodies: a dialogue between Robin
Grove
and Shirley
McKechnie' in Michelle
Potter (ed.)
Brolga: An Australian Journal about
Dance,
Number 12, Ausdance, Canberra,
June 2000, pp.7-14
Text available - http://www.ausdance.org.au/unspoken/research/robin.html
McKechnie,
S., 'Mind in Motion: Seeking a Theory of Choreographic Cognition'
In Choreography
and Dance, Vol 6, Parts 2
and 3, Harwood Academic Publishers,
Amsterdam, 2001, pp.139-154
McKechnie,
S. 'New Perspectives on Collaboration in the Choreographic
Art' in Papers and
Proceedings of
Australia
New Zealand Dance
Research Society Forum, Susan Graham
(ed.) Auckland University of Technology,
October
2001
McKechnie,
S. 'Movement as Metaphor: The Construction of Meaning in the
Choreographic Art', in C.
Stevens, D. Burnham,
G. McPherson,
E. Schubert, & J. Renwick, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 7th International
Conference on Music Perception & Cognition,
Causal Productions. Adelaide, 2002.
Text available - http://www.ausdance.org.au/connections/movement_text.html
Images - http://www.ausdance.org.au/connections/movement.html
McKechnie,
S. ‘Nurturing the Choreographic Imagination’ Dance
Educators Professional Association
Conference, UNSW, Sydney, October 2002
McKechnie,
S. ‘Creativity,
Cognition and the Emergence of Ideas: A dynamical Process’ University
of Melbourne, Vice Chancellors Colloquium, December, 2002
McKechnie,
S. Two entries in J. Whiteoak and A. Scott-Maxwell,
(eds.) Currency
Companion to Music
and Dance in Australia,
(i)‘Choreography-Choreographers’,
pp.131-136, (ii) Research
and Writing- Research in
Creative
Arts’,
pp.584-585, Currency House
Inc. Sydney 2003
McKechnie,
S. ‘Disagreeable
Object’ Brolga:
An Australian Journal about
Dance, 18/2003, Michelle
Potter, (ed.) Ausdance,
Canberra 2003, p.32
McKechnie,
S. ”Dance: The Dance
Ensemble as a Creative
System”, in Rod Wissler
et al, (eds). Innovation
in Australian Arts, Media
and Design: Fresh Challenges
for the Tertiary Sector,
Post Pressed, Flaxton,
Qld., 2004, pp. 13-28
McKechnie,
Shirley, ‘From Grand Narratives to Grands Changements’ in
Susan Graham (ed) Australia
New Zealand Dance Research Society Journal, Auckland 2004
Stevens,
C. J., & McKechnie, S. 'Composing
in Space, Time, Light, and Sound: A Study in Choreographic
Cognition' in International
Journal of Psychology,
35, 100 (Abstract) 2000
Stevens,
C., McKechnie, S., Malloch, S., & Petocz,
A. ‘Choreographic
Cognition: Composing
Time and Space’ in
C. Woods, G. Luck,
R. Brochard, F.
Seddon, J. A. Sloboda & S.
O’Neill
(eds.) Proceedings
of the 6th International
Conference on
Music Perception & Cogniton,
Keele, UK: Department
of Psychology,
Keele University,
August 2000.
Text available
- http://www.ausdance.org.au/unspoken/research/cognition.html
Stevens,
C., Malloch, S.,
McKechnie,
S. 'Moving
Mind: the
Cognitive Psychology
of Contemporary
Dance' in Brolga:
An Australian
Journal
about Dance,
Michelle Potter,
(ed.) Ausdance,
Canberra, No.
15,
December 2001,
pp.55-67
Stevens,
C., Malloch, S.,
Haszard Morris,
R., & McKechnie,
S. 'Shaped
Time: A Dynamical
Systems Analysis
of Contemporary
Dance'.,
in C. Stevens,
D. Burnham,
G. McPherson,
E. Schubert & J.
Renwick (eds.),
Proceedings
of the 7th
International
Conference
on Music
Perception & Cognition,
Causal Productions.
Adelaide,
2002
Stevens,
C., Malloch,
S.,
McKechnie,
S., & Steven,
N. 'Choreographic
Cognition:
The Time-course
and Phenomenology
of Creating
a Dance'
in Pragmatics & Cognition,
11(2),
John Benjamins
Publishing
Company,
Amsterdam,
2003, pp.
299-329
Stevens,
C. (ed.)
Program
and Abstracts,
Unspoken
Knowledges:
A Research
Forum
on Contemporary
Dance
and Choreographic
Cognition,
Melbourne
International
Festival,
2003
Stevens,
C. ’Conceiving
Connections:
Increasing
Industry
Viability
through
Analysis
of
Audience
Responses
to
Dance
Performance’ Partnerships
in
Humanities
Research
Symposium,
UWS
Sydney,
February
2004
Stevens,Catherine, & McKechnie,
Shirley, “Dancing
Between
Worlds:
Trans-disciplinary
Approaches
To
Cognition,
Creativity,
and
Choreography” in
Frois,
Joao
Pedro,
et
al.
(eds.),
Art
and
Science:
Proceedings
of
the
xviii
Congress
of
the
International
Association
of
Empirical
Aesthetics,
Calouste
Gulbenkiian
Foundation,
Lisbon,
September
13-16,
2004,
pp.
161-164
Stevens,
C., & McKechnie,
S. ‘Minds
and motion:
Dynamical Systems
in Choreography,
Creativity, and
Dance’ in
Johannes Birringer & Josephine
Fenger (eds.)
Tanz im
Kopf: Yearbook
15 of
the German
Dance Research
Society, LIT
VERLAG Munster,
2005, pp.
241-252
Stevens,
Catherine & McKechnie, Shirley, ‘Thinking
in Action: Thought made visible in contemporary dance’ in
Cognitive Processing, Vol. 6 no. 4 (Dec. 2005) ISSN:
1612-4782 (print version), ISSN: 1612-4790 (electronic
version)
Springer-Verlag
GmbH, Berlin
and Heidelberg,
2005, pp’243-252
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Film/Video,
Audio, Screen
Conceiving Connections Research Project:
Further choreographic research (Website) www.ausdance.org.au/connections Australian Dance Council (Ausdance Inc.) Canberra, 2002-2005
Erskine,
Shona, 14 x audio interviews (with transcripts) of adolescent
dancers, and leaders and mentors of the Quantum Leap Youth Choreographic
Ensemble, June-August, 2004. (PhD thesis, ‘Identity Formation
in the Adolescent Dancer’, forthcoming)
Glass,
Renee, & Stevens
Catherine, ‘Making Sense of
Contemporary Dance: An Australian Investigation into Audience
Interpretation and Enjoyment Levels’ published on Australia
Council Website, http://www.fuel4arts.com/ 2005
Healey,
Sue, Fine Line, a dance film in collaboration with Shona
Erskine and Victor Bramich, Sydney 2003. Premiered at Unspoken
Knowledges Forum, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, October
2003. (Awarded Best Dance film, Ausdance Awards
2003; Il Coreografo Elettronico (independent prize), Napolidanza,
Italy 2004. Best Dance film, Reeldance Australia 2004.) See
http://www.ausdance.org.au/connections/niche.html
Healey,
Sue, & Pugh,
Mark, Eternity, Edited Video of performance of the Quantum Leap
Choreographic Youth Ensemble, Canberra Playhouse,
July 2004 (For Industry Partner, Australian Choreographic Centre)
Healey
Sue, Quantum Leapers, a 23 minute Documentary Video, commissioned
for the Conceiving Connections Research project in 2004. Filmmaker/Research
Associate, Sue Healey. Screened on ABC TV “Sunday Afternoon”,
September, 2005.
Heaven, Michelle with Louise Curham, Installation:
video footage onto hanging scrims and transparent surfaces, projections
onto
sphere and sculpture. Victorian College of the Arts, School of
Art Gallery, December 2000, see
McKechnie, S. (Interviewer, Audio
recording) Oral History Series, 2003, Project: Conceiving Connections,
Archives of the Oral History
Department, National Library of Australia, Canberra. 10 audio
CDs: Transcripts in progress
Sue Healey, TRC 4956/1&2,
Michelle Heaven, M. TRC 4958,
Margie Medlin, TRC 4957/1&2,
Chrissie Parrott, TRC 4959,
Hellen Sky & John McCormick, TRC 4954/1&2,
Anna Smith, TRC 4955/1&2.
Mitchell,
Natasha (Interviewer and presenter) ‘The Dancing Brain’ broadcast
on ABC Radio All in the Mind, 19 March 2005.
Interviewees: Catherine Stevens (MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Univrersity of
Western Sydney) and Patrick Haggard (University College, London) on brain imaging
research: investigating mirror neuron activity in dancers as they observe dance.
Shona Erskine (Dancer and PhD candidate) on the Conceiving Connections research
project and her current research on the Quantum Leap Youth Choreographic Ensemble.
Full transcript at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/stories/s1323547.htm
Unspoken
Knowledges Research Project: New choreographic research (Website)
www.ausdance.org.au/unspoken Australian
Dance Council (Ausdance Inc.) Canberra 1999-2001
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Performance-Based
Exhibition of Original Art
Adams,
Neil ‘INCARNA in progress: performance
and forum’, Victorian College of the Arts, 2003
Adams, Neil,
INCARNA, a program of three works submitted as part of PhD
candidature. Featuring Delia Silvan, Phoebe Robinson,
Lee Serle, Abbie Sherwood and graduating students from the
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) tertiary and secondary schools.
First
performance at Space 28, VCA School of Drama, December, 2005.
Healey,
Sue, & Heaven, Michelle, Not
Entirely Human (19 minute solo dance).
Music, Darrin Verhagen. First performance at the Victorian College
of the Arts, 2000
Healey, Sue, Fine
Line Terrain, (55 minute ensemble work) in collaboration with Shona
Erskine and Victor Bramich, Lisa
Griffiths,
Nelson Reguera Perez, Nalina Wait and dancers from The
Aichi Arts Centre in Nagoya, Japan. Composer, Darrin Verhagen.
Australian Premiere, Bangarra Studio Theatre, Sydney, 2003.
) http://www.ausdance.org.au/connections/niche.html
Smith
Anna, Red Rain, (39 minute ensemble work for 7 dancers) in
collaboration with Jade Duffy, Kathleen Skipp, Nicole
Steven and Deidre Stewart. Music, Tan Dun. Installation,
Elizabeth
Boyce. First performance at Gasworks Theatre, Port Melbourne,
November
1999. (Awarded the Melbourne Green Room Award for original
choreography, 1999)
Smith Anna, Quiescence, (30 minute
ensemble work for 8 dancers). in collaboration with Jade Duffy,
Kathleen
Skipp
and Deidre
Stewart. Music, Arvo Part. First performance at Gasworks
Theatre, Port
Melbourne, August 2001 (Awarded the Melbourne Green
Room Award for original choreography, 2001)
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