A CONCEPTUAL PROPOSITION FOR A WRITING FORM
DANCE, LANGUAGE & WRITING Like other professional domains in society, the professional dance (art) field can be best characterized as a small niche in society where people surrender to the art form of the moving body, or total embodiment. I notice that when I talk about my work practice out standers, it's hard to explain my job clearly or non-provocative for the listener. And the reason these dialogues can be challenging has everything to do with the language we use. Let me explain this further as introduction to the term Motion Territory. In the making process of dance performances there is often an intellectual approach of the chosen theme to start creating the performance. This is also where the dramaturg plays a role in defining, tuning, creating, reflecting and building a constructive, creative, multilayered dialogue. These processes are often very intensive and shared by small groups of performers and other collaborators to provide a common ground and conceptual fr...