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, 78pp, 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. Booklet Title Pages Contents Inroduction Devising presented in the form of a glossary Chapter 1 – – The Company The company and its background How Idée Fixe works Our work in the community So this is what we do Chapter 2 – The “Lottopus” Series The theme and points of departure “Lottopus 1” – Bridgewater Hall residency “Lottopus 3” – South Hill Park Arts Centre residency A final word Appendix 1 – A Flexible Framework for Devising Appendix 2 – Credits Appendix 3 – Illustrations References About the Authors Video Introduction ACT 1: The Lottopus Project INTERMEZZO: Key Company Ingredients ACT 2: Bon Voyage FINALE
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, 78pp, 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.
Booklet
Title Pages
Contents
Inroduction
Devising presented in the form of a glossary Chapter 1 – – The Company
The company and its background How Idée Fixe works Our work in the community So this is what we do Chapter 2 – The “Lottopus” Series
The theme and points of departure “Lottopus 1” – Bridgewater Hall residency “Lottopus 3” – South Hill Park Arts Centre residency
A final word
Appendix 1 – A Flexible Framework for Devising
Appendix 2 – Credits
Appendix 3 – Illustrations
References
About the Authors
Video
Introduction
ACT 1: The Lottopus Project
INTERMEZZO: Key Company Ingredients
ACT 2: Bon Voyage
FINALE