Embodying Ambiguities: intertextualplays within and between space-time philosophies and the performing body

Embodying Ambiguities explored the relations between choreographic performance and written theory. This website draws together the processes and products that have provided the ongoing stimulus for the research including video excerpts from the performances; programme notes; film; written papers; workshop scores and studio processes. It focuses on No Bodies Baby (2002), the performance and writing project that makes up the central work of the research. Links are made to the earlier choreography Shiver Rococo (1999) and the following choreography Remember to Forget(2003). The project aims were to: 1. reveal and utilise, the contradictions and creative tensions that arise in the investigation of relations between choreography and writing; 2. explore, through written and choreographic practice, the different ways that shared knowledges of anti-dualism stimulate and shift the processes and performances of dancing and writing; 3. examine the ways in which thought moves between dancing and writing which involve memory, reflection, repetition and recognition; 4. produce danced and written texts that suggest new ways of understanding space and time to accommodate the complex mind/body plays of thought between words and movement; 5. reveal and write about the embodied philosophies inherent within the parallel processes of choreographic performance and writing.