Devising Dance and Music: I • D Φ • X (Idée Fixe) – Experimental Sound and Movement Theatre. Book with accompanying video, commissioned by Sunderland University Press, written with the choreographer and dance lecturer Evelyn Jamieson. xvi, 78 pp, with 58-minute video, 2000.
This book and video publication, the first of its kind, demonstrates the value of the devising approach to music and dance. Youth, local community groups, organisations with a special focus and professionals may find this to be an exciting way to work, one based on the special construction of creative endeavour.
The publication introduces the company Idée Fixe – Experimental Sound and Movement Theatre. The company’s approach and its spectrum of activities culminates in what has been called a “flexible framework for devising” dance and music. Arguments for the relevancy of the approach are illustrated with Idée Fixe’s key elements.
Intended for use within educational and arts contexts, the video includes devising process and performance recordings, interviews with students and material from rehearsals. This combined publication enables a sharing of experiences in creative and skills development that took place during two Idée Fixe residencies.
In 2005, Sunderland University Press announced that this booklet/video combination had sold out and that they had no plans for a second edition. The rights have therefore been returned to the authors. We have decided to offer the booklet’s and video’s contents online, below.