The Movement of Composition: Dance and Writing

by Kathryn Perry

This piece, created at the Digital Media and Composition Institute in June 2012, is a multimodal attempt to capture and compare both the physical and conceptual movement involved in dance and writing. The project is my first step towards further exploring the non-linear nature of composition as expressed in the movement of the body and of the mind. Please download a descriptive transcript, if you'd like.

 

References

Audio

• Corso, Guiseppe. (2011, May 4). Riding to the ovest lands. Jamendo. Retrieved June 2, 2012, from http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a88725/riding-to-the-ovest-lands
• Snarkey. (2007, Nov. 4). Typer.mp3. Freesound. Retrieved June 2, 2012, from http://www.freesound.org/people/snarkey/sounds/43551/

Video

• Bailey Films [Producer]. (1961). Dance your own way. Internet Archive. Retrieved June 2, 2012, from http://archive.org/details/dyow_bf1961
• GM Fonseca [Producer]. (2005, May 15). "Dervish Ceremony." Internet Archive. Retrieved June 2, 2012, from http://archive.org/details/DervishCeremony
• Holmes (Burton) Films [Producer]. (1940). Journalism. Internet Archive. Retrieved June 2, 2012, from http://archive.org/details/Journali1940
• Amberhythm13. (2011, October 16). Do you know what it takes to be a ballerina? YouTube. Retrieved June 2, 2012, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZuZ4IEZYxw

 

Kathryn Perry currently teaches first-year composition at University of Louisville, where she is a doctoral fellow in Rhetoric and Composition. Her research interests include composition pedagogy, translanguaging practices, and power relations within the digital experience of community literacies. She can be found at perrywords.wordpress.com and reached at perry.kathryn@gmail.com.