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Writing As Dancing: The Dancer In Your Hands , A Novella <>, Joanna Tollemache Pollitt
Writing As Dancing: The Dancer In Your Hands , A Novella <>, Joanna Tollemache Pollitt
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
With the premise to ‘write like I dance,’ Writing as dancing investigates new methods of accessing and revealing choreographic thinking in three distinct ways; writing as a soloist, writing for the ensemble and writing responsively in collaboration. Resulting iterations have variously emerged in the form of performance, novella, play, artist-book, exhibition and long form poem; the novella The Dancer in Your Hands, being the primary solo work presented alongside this exegesis.
The research posits engagement with solo dance improvisation practice as a dynamically charged, and tangible way of thinking that is transferable to the practice of writing. It draws …