Moving Knowledge [2014-2017]

Through case studies of Western Australian choreographers involved with Natalie Cursio’s With a Bullet: The Album Project, Moving Knowledge explores how complex dance vocabularies challenge the view of human memory and cognition as merely representational and declarative, thus informing new perspectives on the links between memory, music and movement.

Image credit: Nat Cursio Co.’s With a Bullet: the Album Project – Perth Edition, Fringe World 2013, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Standing L-R: Shona Erskine, Kynan Hughes, Michael Whaites, Sam Fox, Claudia Alessi; seated L-R: Jacob Lehrer, Aimee Smith. Photograph by Ivan Shaw.

Nat Cursio Co., With a Bullet: the Album Project – Perth Edition. Choreographer Claudia Alessi, studio photograph, 2013. Dancers L-R: Aimee Smith and Shona Erskine. Photograph by Nat Cursio.

Nat Cursio Co.’s With a Bullet: the Album Project – Perth Edition, choreographer Jo Pollitt, studio photograph, 2013. Dancer: Shona Erskine. Photograph by Nat Cursio.

Nat Cursio Co.’s With a Bullet: the Album Project – Perth Edition, choreographer Jacob Lehrer, studio photograph, 2013. Dancers L-R: Kynan Hughes, Claudia Alessi, Joel Small. Photograph by Trent Suidgeest.

Nat Cursio Co., With a Bullet: the Album Project – Perth Edition. Choreographer Shona Erskine, studio photograph, 2013. Dancers L-R: Shona Erskine, Claudia Alessi, Aimee Smith and Joel Small. Photograph by Trent Suidgeest.

This project was supported by:

• Nat Cursio Co.’s With a Bullet: The Album Project
• Edith Cowan University’s Early Career Researcher grant scheme

Published research:

• McKenzie, Vahri (2017). Dancing With a Bullet: Moving into Memory with Music. In P. Hansen and B. Bläsing (eds.), Performing the Remembered Present: the Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre, and Music (pp. 197-223). London, England: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
• McKenzie, Vahri (2017). Placing knowledge in the body: Western Australian choreographers dancing With a Bullet. Brolga: an Australian journal about dance 41, Braddon, ACT.
• McKenzie, Vahri (2015). Let’s make a mess. Dancewest, June 2015, 22-23.
• McKenzie, Vahri (2015). A WA icon loops the loop. Dancewest, March 2015, 8-9.
• McKenzie, Vahri (2014). A Visceral Kind of Understanding. Dancewest, December 2014, 18-19.
• McKenzie, Vahri (2014). Freedom in surrender. Dancewest, September 2014, 22-23.
  

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