ResDance Series 4: Episode 4: Noticing in improvisation practices with Sally Doughty

ResDance Series 4: Episode 4: Noticing in improvisation practices with Sally Doughty In this episode, Sally shares insight into her research interests in movement improvisation practices. Through locating her thinking in her making and performing experiences, we explore ideas in relation to the role of ‘noticing’, the body as a corporeal archive and the role of decision making in her improvisational practice.  In this episode, Sally highlights the importance of the centrality of a first-person perspective and finding ways to privilege the voice of the artist.  Sally Doughty has been making and performing internationally since the early 90s (Mexico, USA, Latvia, Paris and Estonia) and she has a particular research interest and specialism in movement improvisation practices that span improvisation, choreography, documentation, corporeal archives, and dancing and drawing.  Her publications emerge from her practice and she writes from a first-person perspective – privileging the voice of the artist.  Recent book chapters in edited collections address improvisation from various perspectives: the role of ‘noticing’ in her improvisational practice (Oxford University Press, 2019), dancing and drawing (Cambridge Scholars, 2020); the tensions in shifting from ‘stage to page’ (Dance Books 2020) and performing corporeal archives (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020).   She is Associate Professor Dance and the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance (CIRID) at De Montfort University, Leicester, and was Research Director for FABRIC (Dance4 and DanceXchange together), 2022-2023.   Contact details:   Email: sdoughty@dmu.ac.uk Instagram: sldoughty67 Twitter: @sdoughty2 Facebook: Sally Doughty Webpage: www.dmu.ac.uk/sallydoughty Website: https://www.bodyofknowledge.co.uk/ Publications: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9663-4/   https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-44085-5   https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dance-Fields-Staking-Studies-Twenty-First/dp/1852731818   Practice: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/214462246   https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/193674117   https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/244608078   Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research in action.