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Texts for Scores for Performance

Texts for Scores for Performance is an open source booklet for inquiry,
making and performance collated by Joe Moran.

Contributors: Anonymous, Aladin (UK), Henrietta Bannerman (UK),
Frank Bock (UK), Mary Chamberlain (UK), Rachel Lois Clapham (UK),
Augusto Corrieri (UK), Charlotte Darbyshire (UK), Ben Evans
(USA/France), Jesse Aron Green (USA), Paul Halferty (Canada), Ray
Jacobs (UK), Bojana Kunst (Slovenia), Julie Mayo (USA), Tim Miller
(USA), Joe Moran (UK), Julie Nathanielsz (USA), Yvonne Ng (Canada),
Betty Nigianni (UK), Stina Nyberg (Sweden), Florence Peake (UK), Niki
Pollard (UK), Zoë Poluch (Sweden), Helen Poynor (UK), Alexandra Russ
(Australia), Stephanie Skura (USA), Sarah Whatley (UK), Martin Welton
(UK).

‘In 2010, I invited an international group of artists and thinkers to select and contribute short, written texts for this collection. My intention was to draw together a series of extracts that might be drawn upon as scores for performance. Individuals were invited to select extracts from theoretical and philosophical writing or prose and poetic works.

The impetus for the collection was Unsignal, a quartet I choreographed for dancers Marina Collard, Annie Lok, Lauren Potter and Sasha Roubicek. I was interested to employ texts as scores for performance, engaging in the physicality of ideas, to create a work imbued with a density of conflated, jostling and approximate meanings.

It is a great pleasure to share this collection and I warmly encourage others to engage with the generosity of consideration that each contributor has brought to bear on this project. I hope the ideas and propositions in this collection will inspire, stimulate and inform others in their own work.’

Joe Moran, June 2011

Texts for Scores for Performance is jointly published by Dance Art Foundation and Joe Moran Dance. It was recently acquired by the library collection at London Contemporary Dance School.

Texts for Scores for Performance is available online free of charge as a PDF document.

* Please click here to download the booklet

Texts for Scores for Performance is available
in printed form from Dance Art Foundation. Each
booklet is individually printed, stitched and bound
to order. Printed booklets are priced at £30 plus
postage and package.

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