Bodies in Flight make performances where flesh utters and words move, challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and performers, as well as audiences and place.

An inspiration to emerging artists, this collection covers key themes for any maker of contemporary performance and includes selections of scripts and archival material from thirty years of making devised theatre and performance in the UK and internationally.

 

 

'This book reveals the wonderful particularities of the work of Bodies in Flight in an intimate sharing of their making processes, producing and thinking. Multiple voices and perspectives nestle, resonating with their contemporary performance practice, whilst remaining distinctive. Delightful.'

Professor Vida Midgelow, Professor of Dance and Choreographic Practices, Dean of Doctoral School, University of the Arts, London

'The DNA of Bodies in Flight's live performance soaks across the pages and seeps into the imagination of the reader, compelling, moving, provocative and inspiring. It will live in the hands of devisors for many years to come, in the way that Certain Fragments was never far from my own fingers or thoughts as a young experimental performance maker.'

Dr Joanna Bucknall, Lecturer, University of Birmingham

 

 

Simon Jones is a theatre director and writer. Simon is director of Bodies in Flight and Emeritus Professor of Performance at the University of Bristol, UK.

Sara Giddens was a choreographer and theatre director. She was also Professor of Choreographic Practice at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.