Writing the Language of the Body: Aine Stapleton's Score

Pamela Whitaker

Writing the Language of the Body: Aine Stapleton's Score

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Abstract

Áine Stapleton’s choreographic score is a landscape of words within which to compose dance. As a series of possibilities, the score encourages movement using a non-directive vocabulary. The dancer is invited to respond to a score that constructs associations to language. Words are chosen with a specific intention to structure a dance. There are metaphors, juxtapositions of meaning, and words in motion. The score’s text inspires ingenuity and the dance vocabulary is received both as a psychical and physical challenge to overcome predictability.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Polyphony: Journal of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists
Publisher	Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists
Publication status	Published - 26 Jan 2020

Bibliographical note

Pamela Whitaker is an art therapist and lecturer in the MSc Art Therapy course at Ulster University, Belfast School of Art. She also words under the name of Groundswell, www.groundswell.ie.

Keywords

Dance
Choreography

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