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Abstract
Using “Soundpainting” as a case study, this paper examines how musicians and dancers can create and contribute to a dialogue between, across and within the arts. Interviews with the “Soundpainter” Walter Thompson provide a practical and applied basis for analysis, and a major goal of the article is to illustrate how music-dance dialogues are formed in this creative sign language.
Résumé
En utilisant le « soundpainting » comme étude de cas, nous interrogeons les façons dont les musiciens et les danseurs créent et contribuent au dialogue entre les arts. Une proposition pratique et analytique est fournie par des entretiens avec le « soundpainter » Walter Thompso n, mettant à défi les conceptions sur la création de dialogues musique-danse au sein de ce langage de gestes créateur.
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Biographical note
Helen Julia Minors is Senior Lecturer in Music at Kingston University. Publications include book chapters in: Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature ed. Caroline Potter, Ashgate (2013); Bewegungen zwischen Hören und Sehen ed. Stephanie Schroedter, Forschingsinstitut für Musiktheater des Universität Bayreuth (2012); La musique française : esthétique et identité en mutation 1892-1992 ed. Pascal Terrien, Éditions Delateur (2012); articles in Opera Quarterly (2006), Nineteenth Century Music Review (2007), Dance Research (2009), Notes (2010) and Ars Lyrica (2012); and a book, Music, Text and Translation (Continuum 2012). Helen sits on the executive committees of the National Association for music in Higher Education.
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