McKenzie, V. (2014). Extending Underscore Alchemy. Brolga: An Australian journal about dance 39, December 2014, 35-42. ‘Underscore Alchemy’ is a research project designed to investigate how artists from disciplines outside the performing arts might engage with Nancy Stark Smith’s collaborative improvisation model, the Underscore. As …
McKenzie, V. (2012). Using the spectrum to theorise apparent oppositions in creative writing doctorates. In D. Hecq (Ed.), The Creativity Market: Creative writing in the 21st century (pp. 148-162). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. The questions raised by placing creative research within an academic context that …
McKenzie, V. (2011). Agent Provocateur. <proximity> contact improvisation, new dance, movement improvisation 14(3), 4-7). Republished (2012) <proximity> contact improvisation, new dance, movement improvisation 15(1), 27-30. This is the major textual work to document Felix Ruckert’s 2011 Australian visit in which he offered workshops for Xplore …
McKenzie, Vahri (2012). Fool Asleep play script, Fringe World Festival 2012. Perth, Australia: The Treasury. A one-act play that used spoken text with original video and dance to present the complex relationship between a subject of a sleeping disorder and an examining sleep scientist. The …
McKenzie, V. (2008). Enter jamspace. Adbusters Journal of the Mental Environment 80. Article about the fourth annual Australian Contact Improvisation Convergence in Mullumbimby, June 2008, including an interview with leading Australian dancer Jacob Lehrer.