Authorship Ownership and Control: Dancers´ Roles and Materials

In this artistic research I aim to bring nuance and understanding to these broad terms: authorship, ownership, and control, from the perspective of dancers. Their experiences of creating, learning, or passing on the dances they create and dance will constitute this research.

The documentation of dancers’ situated knowledge, discourse and experience of authorship, ownership, and control will contribute to meaningful reflections serving the dance field itself by heightening awareness of the specificity of these terms’ application in this community of practice.

Dancers’ perspectives will also contribute to the advancement of theory and practice concerning creativity, intellectual property, and maintenance or preservation of authored materials and artworks.The project will span three years and generate a series of short performances, and an online publication with three main parts.