Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dancing/principles -- Material -- Habits -- Repetition -- Repetition -- Repetition -- Improvisation/cut and paste/choreography -- Form -- Exploration/risk -- Subject/inspiration/stealing/familiar movement/choreography/referencing other sources/self-expression -- Contract/performance space/language/choreography -- Breaking the rules -- Research/how and what?/dramaturgy/theory/curiosity -- Interview/unfinished business/questions/principles -- Financial limitations/studios/funding applications -- Preparation/rehearsal schedule/heaviness -- Collaboration/audience -- Originality/paradox -- Technique/parrot on your shoulder/authenticity/daily practice/dancing/style/fiddling -- Virtuosity -- Hoarding/beginnings -- Endings -- Keeping it going/pacing -- Dub reggae/rate of change/simple material/desperation -- Stillness and silence/fear of being boring -- Minimal and maximal -- Does it work?/showings/mentoring -- Other bodies/states -- Distracting the self/paradox/choreography/performance/electric guitars -- Predictable and unpredictable/expectation -- Narrative/ballet/continuity -- Continuity/sectional pieces/material/make six things/choreography/flow/relation -- Relation/solos, duos, trios, quartets/ideas -- Relation/time/rhythm -- Time -- Abstract dance -- Counterpoint/formal elements/difference -- Scores/studios/improvisation -- Chance/empty hands/gamut of movements/limitations/laborious work/philosophy -- Place or space? -- Audience/facing the front/confrontation/humour/failure -- Audience -- Performance/principles -- The marketplace/earning a living/administrating the work/commissions -- Music/collaboration/silence -- Text -- Lighting/technicians/collaboration/costumes/shoes or no shoes?/set design/nudity -- Titles -- Filming/history/collaboration/mirrors/human-scale -- Hierarchies/dancer or choreographer?/in it or out of it?/who owns what? -- How can I simplify all of this? -- Forget all this.

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