On the Process of Writing Site-Specific Textual Choreography

Abstract

This article addresses a process of writing textual choreography. The authors have developed a co-authored and co-embodied site-specific approach to choreography as writing. They introduce the method they have developed and tell the readers about the urban site in which they employed it. Most importantly they describe the process of co-writing through an approach inspired by phenomenological research and its conceptions of lived experience description and interpretation. With the article the authors aim to introduce features of their lived experience of site-specific collaborative writing, to discuss some of the specific characteristics of their approach to textual choreography and to offer insight for others developing approaches to site-specific, embodied and somatic forms of writing. An additional motif is that the authors want to participate in the movement of extending choreography into the realms poetic and creative writing that is an increasingly addressed theme in both dance art and its artistic research.