About

 

What is the connection between writing and dance? Can one support the other, harm the other, change the other? Are they separate entities or do they coexist? As choreographers, we are often asked to describe our works, be it in applications for funding, project proposals or program notes. How can we express an largely nonverbal art form in the written word? How can we wield the written word to further us as artists?

Creative Writing was established to challenge the conventions of writing about dance, on dance, in dance and around dance.

 

Re:Views

It’s around 10:30 PM, clusters of people linger outside a theater having just seen a performance. Everyone has something to say. Good, bad, boring, beautiful, amazing… So we exchange thoughts with our close friends, sometimes with the performers or the choreographer. Maybe a review comes out a couple of days later in the paper. And that’s it.

Creative Writing was established to provide a place for a wider and freer discourse surrounding dance that what is available in newspapers.

In their Re:Views, the Creative Writing contributors respond to performances.

*Creative Writing projects are produced with the assistance of the Lottery Council for Culture and Art.