Jo Pollitt is an artist and Forrest Fellow at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in the School of Education and WAAPA. Her research is grounded in a twenty-year practice of working with improvisation as methodology across multiple performed, choreographic, curatorial, and publishing platforms. Jo currently lectures in dance improvisation at WAAPA, is convenor of Dance Research Australia, co-founder of the feminist research collective The Ediths, artist-researcher with #FEAS -Feminist Educators Against Sexism, and core member of ECU’s Centre for People Place & Planet. She is co-director of BIG Kids Magazine and author of The dancer in your hands < >. Jo’s choreographic thinking works with the rigour and presence of improvisation as a dramaturgical and feminist practice.
asemigraphic press continues a poetic practice of writing as dancing – of pressing keys as deliberate turns and re/turns - in a contained palette of tone, attention and continuation of dancing. An accordion expanse // in breath and out and / and the portal between in / and out ^ and / where decision extends and delays and veers beyond swallowing > provoking a softening of the body and widening of energetic connection through micro-dances as micro-scripts of intra/changeable order moving with the under scenography of keyboard and net workings. This work is intended to be kinaesthetically experienced and ‘read’ as one part of an ongoing performance that is unfixed and multiple. It is deliberately written into asemic ambiguity to make more room for comprehension otherwise. / and she dance dancer dances //
Jo Pollitt is an artist and Forrest Fellow at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in the School of Education and WAAPA. Her research is grounded in a twenty-year practice of working with improvisation as methodology across multiple performed, choreographic, curatorial, and publishing platforms. Jo currently lectures in dance improvisation at WAAPA, is convenor of Dance Research Australia, co-founder of the feminist research collective The Ediths, artist-researcher with #FEAS -Feminist Educators Against Sexism, and core member of ECU’s Centre for People Place & Planet. She is co-director of BIG Kids Magazine and author of The dancer in your hands < >. Jo’s choreographic thinking works with the rigour and presence of improvisation as a dramaturgical and feminist practice.
asemigraphic press continues a poetic practice of writing as dancing – of pressing keys as deliberate turns and re/turns - in a contained palette of tone, attention and continuation of dancing. An accordion expanse // in breath and out and / and the portal between in / and out ^ and / where decision extends and delays and veers beyond swallowing > provoking a softening of the body and widening of energetic connection through micro-dances as micro-scripts of intra/changeable order moving with the under scenography of keyboard and net workings. This work is intended to be kinaesthetically experienced and ‘read’ as one part of an ongoing performance that is unfixed and multiple. It is deliberately written into asemic ambiguity to make more room for comprehension otherwise. / and she dance dancer dances //
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