The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Publications & Research
Document(s)
Document(s) comprises a library of commentary on people and issues in the dance field. This repository of interviews and editorials by writers and thinkers on dance includes writing commissioned by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.
danceworkbook
danceworkbook is a series of web based and DVD-ROM publications produced by Dance Advance. Please click here for a copy of press release for further information.
This series will establish a body of reference material concerned with interrogating a variety of choreographic processes-stages of creation and development that form the “back story” to the finished dances audiences see in performance. The debut work in this series is Braiding Unbraiding Rebraiding: Headlong Dance Theater examines artistic process in collaboration with Tere O’Connor.
The Braiding workbook will be housed at a new website www.danceworkbook.org and is also available in DVD-ROM format by contacting either Headlong or Dance Advance. Essays are featured by Tere O’Connor, and by Anna Drozdowski, former managing director of Headlong who is also a dance writer and dramaturg. There is also a wide ranging anthology of filmed recording of rehearsal and workshop sessions, interviews with all the principle artists including collaborating dancers in the project, and biographic profiles.
An overview of the intercultural explorations of choreographer Roko Kawai will be the next volume in the danceworkbook series, expected to be released in winter 2009/2010.