Reviews of Humming The Bones:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI live in the middle of the United States, so far away from Australia that it seems like another world. Yet, I have been aware of Dianne Reid\u2019s work across multiple disciplines for as long as I can remember. Dianne\u2019s tribe stretches beyond the boundaries of countries, language, practice and time.\u00a0 Similarly, the research topics that have animated her work run from Bachelard to Burlesque, to film and performance and in and out of the histories of modern and contemporary dance. Humming The Bones is an archive of a creative life fully lived. The writing is deeply honest, at times painfully so, and centers Dianne\u2019s emotional and empathetic relationship with the universe and all the folks in it. The joy, the grief, the sacred and profane are all to be found in the thoughtfully wrought pages of this book. For Dianne, dance has indeed been, \u201can act of survival.\u201d Humming The Bones allows us, the readers, to share in that journey in a lovely and poetic way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Douglas Rosenberg<\/strong> (Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
“A multi-faceted journey that takes grief for a walk, over landscapes literal and figurative, past and present, to depict a life bursting with artistic twists and turns. Poetry and prose is caught in the moment or evoked through memory in this moving account of a dancer\u2019s life.”<\/p>\n
\u2014Dr Philipa Rothfield (<\/strong>Professor, Dance and Philosophy of the Body, University of Southern Denmark; Senior Lecturer, Philosophy and Politics, La Trobe University)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThe structure is dramatic, extremely well written and completely original. Not only dancers, but anyone who uses their body for artistic expression should read this book.\u201d \u2014Paul Huntingford <\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cReads like a dance. Reid\u2019s like a dance too.\u201d \u2014Kim Donnell<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Also by Dianne Reid:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Refereed Journal Articles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u2018The negotiations of relationship\u2014a conversation about dance improvisation.\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>Co-authored with Melinda Smith (2017) Brolga<\/em> 41, Ausdance, Dec. 2017.<\/p>\n\u2018Improcinemania\u2019<\/em><\/strong> in Brolga<\/em> 40, Ausdance, March 2016.<\/p>\n\u2018Fleshing the Interface\u2019<\/em><\/strong> in Rosenberg, Douglas & Claudia Kappenberg, eds. International Journal of Screendance<\/em> Vol 4, 117\u2013129. The Ohio State University Libraries, 2014.<\/p>\n‘Making things visible’<\/em><\/strong> in Rosenberg, Douglas & Claudia Kappenberg, eds. International Journal of Screendance <\/em>Vol 2, No 1, 89\u201392. Madison, Wisconsin: Parallel Press, 2012.<\/p>\n‘Scenes from another life\u2014the script<\/em><\/strong>‘<\/em> in Writings on Dance<\/em>, Issue 23, 8\u201311. Melb, 2006.<\/p>\n‘I perform therefore I am’<\/em><\/strong> in Practice<\/em>, 39\u201348. Deakin University, 1997.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Refereed Conference Papers<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n‘A Rakish Angle’<\/em><\/strong> in Re-searching Dance: International Conference on Dance Research. <\/em>\u00a0India International Centre, 60\u201363. New Delhi, India, 2009.<\/p>\n‘Scenes from another life\u2014the paper.’<\/em><\/strong> Image, Text & Sound Conference<\/em>, School of Creative Media, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004 and Dance Rebooted: re-initializing the grid<\/em>. Deakin University: Ausdance, 2004.<\/p>\n‘The Shifting Eye’<\/em><\/strong> in Double Dialogues Conference, Theatreworks, St.Kilda, 1999.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Book chapters
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n‘Cutting choreography’<\/em><\/strong> in Barrett, Estelle & Barbara Bolt, eds. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, <\/em>London & NY: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2007.<\/p>\n‘From choreographer to film-maker’<\/em><\/strong> in French, Lisa (Ed) Womenvision<\/em>: women and the moving image in Australia, 93\u2013104. Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 2003.<\/p>\nConference Presentations<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u2018Dance Interrogations\u2019<\/em><\/strong> at TDENNZA, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 5 July 2013.<\/p>\n\u2018Improcinemaniac\u2019<\/em><\/strong> at Rooting\/Rerouting Screendance<\/em>, Light Moves Symposium, Limerick, Ireland, 9 Nov, 2014<\/p>\n\u2018Improclusivity\u2019<\/em><\/strong> at Creative Connections<\/em>,<\/em> Arts Activated 2014 Conference, Sydney, NSW, Accessible Arts, 28 Oct, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Other<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n‘Foreigner unfixed’<\/em> <\/strong>2007 for Kinesis magazine<\/p>\nOnline Reviewer, 2011 for http:\/\/www.fringereview.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018Disability & Inclusion: Dance interview.\u2019<\/em><\/strong> Video interview (2017), Deakin University.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Cover image: costume project 1986. Photo by Tom Giles) My new book “Humming The Bones” can be purchased here\u00a0https:\/\/www.trybooking.com\/DJRNJ Humming the bones charts the life of Australian dance and video artist Dianne Reid as she navigates grief and transition. Uniquely structured, shifting between prose and poetry, past and present, Reid interweaves contemporary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19239,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19267,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/19267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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