Projects, Precarity and the Ontology of Dance Works

Hetty Blades

doi:10.1017/S0149767719000056

Projects, Precarity and the Ontology of Dance Works

Hetty Blades

Faculty Research Centre for Dance Research (CDaRE)

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Abstract

Project based work is common within ‘precarious’ working contexts (Laermans 2015, Lorey in Puar 2012, Van Assche 2017). Within contemporary dance, short-term funding opportunities often result in the production of sharings, works-in-progress, and one-off performance events. This paper considers the relationship between the outputs of projects and the ontology of choreographic ‘works’. Drawing on Frédéric Pouillaude’s conception of choreographic works as both public and resistant ([2009] 2017), I examine entities produced through projects, which borrowing a term from choreographer Hamish MacPherson, I label these ‘work-sketches’. Furthermore, I reflect on the correlation between ‘immaterial labor’ (Lazzarato 1996, Hardt and Negri 2000) and the concept of the choreographic work, thinking-through the commodity-form of ‘work-sketches’ and probing the relationship between socio-economic contexts and dance work ontology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	66-78
Number of pages	13
Journal	Dance Research Journal
Volume	51
Issue number	1
Early online date	23 Apr 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767719000056
Publication status	Published - Apr 2019

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Keywords

immaterial labor
ontology
precarity
projects
work-sketches

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Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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Blades, H. (2019). Projects, Precarity and the Ontology of Dance Works. Dance Research Journal, 51(1), 66-78. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767719000056

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