Writing Workshop: Finding the Right language for your Practice
School of English, Media and Performing Arts (UNSW) and Critical Path Choreographic Lab
July 1st -2nd, 3-6 pm @ Webster Building* UNSW
Expressions of interest due 1 June 2010
With Dr. Erin Brannigan and guest: Prof. Stephen Muecke
This workshop primarily involves talking about writing. As dancers and choreographers, language is the medium or the ‘interface’ you often have to get your ideas through in order to communicate them to colleagues, collaborators and potential sources of funding and support. This is a type of translation from one medium to another; in this way is no different from translating an image into movement.
Being able to undertake this type of translation can have several benefits besides clarifying your research for others; writing as thinking, text as part of your outcome, and documentation. Bearing this in mind, rather than thinking of writing as a medium that closes process down, we will be looking for ways that language and writing can facilitate movement, change and development.
The workshop will be largely led by your own experiences and expertise and we will be calling on participants to share successful processes and strategies.
Some issues that may come up:
• finding the right language for the specifics of your practice
• identifying your innovations
• defining themes that you keep coming back to
• thinking about writing style and how this reflects your practice
• how your enthusiasm or excitement will manifest in the text
• structuring your writing into a coherent whole.
Tasks may involve:
• writing a list of descriptives for your work, or the work of others
• finding writers you like and discussing
• reading examples offered by others
• short writing tasks based on your choreographic practice
Professor of Writing at UNSW, Stephen Muecke, will be joining us throughout the process
Register your interest by e-mailing Helen Martin at projects@criticalpath.org.au by date (June 1st )
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