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Body-Biographies
Our Life Stories in Dance. Hilary Cartwright, Christine Kono, Chris Lechner, and Marcus Schulkind
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How do dancers’ life stories contribute to dance history? Through an autobiographical project exploring life review with her dance teachers – Hilary Cartwright, Christine Kono, Chris Lechner, and Marcus Schulkind – Elizabeth Waterhouse develops an embodied methodology for life story interviews and life-writing. Merging dance studies, auto/biography studies, oral history, and practice-led dance research, this interdisciplinary inquiry offers a methodologically innovative and reflexive contribution to the study of dance, memory, and embodiment. Drawing on her experience as both a dance scholar and former professional dancer, Waterhouse shows how gathering her dance teachers’ life stories enables her to write embodied history.
Elizabeth Waterhouse, born in 1979, is a professor of Ballet at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and an associate researcher at the Institute of Theatre Studies at the Universität Bern. She was a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation project »Auto_Bio_Graphy as Performance: A Field of Dance Historiographic Innovation« (2020–2024). Her research focuses on life stories, dance ethnography, embodiment, and the choreography of William Forsythe.
- ISBN-13
- 9783837681741
- Publisher
- transcript
- Imprint
- transcript
- Publication date
- 27 September 2026
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 388
- Dimensions
- 225 x 148 mm
- Language
- English
