Choreography: Strategies, ed. by Marta Keil and Joanna Leśnierowska

This book has emerged in response to the strong need for reflecting on contemporary choreography in its current contexts and modus operandi. Over the contributions below, it follows this desire to explore the potentials of choreography as a way to think, to act and to perceive reality around us. At the same time, the book is the third and concluding volume of this series dedicated to different aspects of movement making: in its literal and metaphorical sense, and in all varieties of ways we can see and therefore understand choreography in the present day.

This book is made by practitioners. Together, we have aimed to challenge the way we think of what we do as well as how we go about doing it. We want to reflect how we gather, build relations and situate our thoughts and actions in response to the ever-changing reality (social and political) around us. Thus, we hoped to create a space for variety of views, voices and practices enabling both authors and readers to delve into their own reflection and look for possible and impossible inter-connections.

The book has been brought together in the context of multiple crises. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic only highlighted its complexity, making it clear for us that there’s no way back to some normal, as that “normal” hadn’t been working anyway. What’s at stake here is the social and political order, the pressing need to reclaim agency, to extend the right to choose the way we gather, restore relations and structure our societies anew.