Spring 2010
Focus on collaborations
Journalism - the actual business of writing - can be lonely. But, inveterate and solitary hack though I am, these days my brain is swarming with thoughts and visions of loads of bodies coming together to dance.
Animated is, but only in part, to blame. I didn't start out deliberately assembling articles about group dances for this issue, and yet that's turned out to be its focus. The stories range from Helen Cundy's musings on City Maquette, a collaboration between France and Woking sprinkled with cross-cultural challenges, to Retina's report on site-specific pieces staged throughout Belgium and beyond. Cecilia Macfarlane shares her experiences - and good fortune - working on community-based events in Japan, initially because Rosemary Lee couldn't make it despite having laid the groundwork. Lee is a dab hand at large-scale dance performances. A trio of authors looks at her latest human... Read more
In this issue
| Guest editor Donald Hutera gets to grips with multifarious manifestations of group dance |  |
| Kate Scanlan responds to Sunanda Biswas's article on women in Hip Hop, Animated Winter 2010 |  |
Susie Kelly responds to Rachel Elliott's article on English folk dance, Animated Winter 2010
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