CHRIS CRICKMAY

Miranda Tufnell and Chris Crickmay

A Widening Field: Journeys in Body and Imagination, Triarchy Press, 2023. First published by Dance Books in 2004.

Miranda Tufnell and Chris Crickmay Body Space Image: Notes Towards Improvisation and Performance, Triarchy Press, 2023. First published by Virago in 1990 then by Dance Books in 1993.

A French edition of Body Space Image, with the title: Corps, Espace, Image was published in Brussels by Contredanse in 2014.


A Czech edition of Body Space Image, with the title: Tělo, prostor, představa was published by AMU Prague in 2020.

 

"If you only have the chance to buy one book on contemporary performance, buy "Body, Space and Image" by Crickmay & Tufnell. If you have the chance to buy two, get "A Widening Field." Then if you have more luck attend one of Crickmay & Tufnell's workshops like I did at the Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth. Both books are like bibles for me during both the hardest and easiest moments of the creative process. There are few books that are such useful practical resources for contemporary artists." Deborah Claire Procter, Clear Insight Productions.

 

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

 

Chris Crickmay and Eva Karczag “Living and Re-living the Moment: An Account of a Collaborative Practice”, ch2. in Jill Journeaux et al. (ed) Body, Space and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing: Drawing Conversations 2. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars, 2020. pp. 21-38

 

Dr. Sara Reed, “in conversation with Chris Crickmay and Eva Karczag” Ch1 in the above, pp. 5-20.

 

Chris Crickmay “The Ordinary and the Special: Four Student’s Work.” David Harding ed. Decadent: Public Art – Contentious Term and Contested Practice. Glasgow: Foulis Press, 1997. 72-83.

 

Crickmay, C. and Tufnell, M. “In the Fullness of Ourselves: some skills and intentions of improvisation”, in Part 3 of Noyale Colin, et al. (ed) Ethical Agility in Dance. London, Routledge, 2024, pp. 264-273.

 

SELECTED ARTICLES

 

Chris Crickmay, “Explorations at the Edge: Memories of Art and Dance at Dartington in The Thatcher Years.” Theatre Dance and Performance Training, Vol 9, issue 3, October 2018. 326-336.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19443927.2018.1478322

 

Chris Crickmay, “Light Dark Light Heavy: reflections on an art/ dance collaboration,” Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Vol 7, no. 1, 2015. 143-154.

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jdsp/2015/00000007/00000001/art00011

 

Chris Crickmay and Ellen Kilsgaard, “The Making of Oh! Monster,” Choreographic Practices, Vol. 3, 2012. 65-98. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/542d2187e4b0e06ec5d29ca2/t/5444d02fe4b049e2a2ed734f/1413795887072/themakingofohmonster.pdf

 

Chris Crickmay and Eva Karczag, “Working together Conversationally”. Contact Quarterly 28, no. 2, 2003, 10-17. Also published in Writings on Dance, no.22 Summer 2003/4. 33-36.

 

Chris Crickmay, “Art and Social Context, its Background, Inception and Development,” Journal of Visual Arts Practice, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2003. 119-133.

https://vdocuments.mx/art-and-social-context-by-chris-crickmay.html

 

Chris Crickmay, “The Apparently Invisible Dances of Miranda Tufnell and Dennis Greenwood”, Contact Quarterly, Volume 30, no. 1  (The Early Years Issue). 42-45. (First published in CQ, 1983).

 

Chris Crickmay, “Fragments of Daily Life: Mary Fulkerson’s World of Images and Compositional Ideas” Contact Quarterly, vol xiii, no. 2, 1988. 9-21.

 

Chris Crickmay, “Dialogues with Rosemary Butcher: A Decade of her Work”, New Dance, no. 36, Spring, 1986.