We are excited to welcome this unique collection of poetry to the world.

Books will be for sale at the event thanks to Crow Books. Light food will be provided, and drinks will be available from the bar at a special launch discount.

Registration essential.  Please register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/book-launch-the-dancer-in-your-hands-by-jo-pollitt-tickets-115675621899

This is a free event.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Originally submitted as part of Pollitt’s PhD in 2018, the dancer in your hands is an unique exploration of the nature and phsyicality of dance represented through language, text and design.

‘The dancer in your hands < > is a superb and compellingly sustained poetic work. It mobilises striking innovations in notation, such as punctuation marks making visible the energetic, choreographic, and imaginative aspects of dance. As a book the dancer in your hands enacts the virtual, temporalized tremor, becoming a seismograph of latent bodily event. Refusing gendered binaries Pollitt engages in an erotics of the interstices, celebrating both the elongation of the moment and the exhilaration of the fugitive, or what the dancer-poet calls the radical impermanence of dance.’

Marion May Campbell

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jo Pollitt is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar, whose work is grounded in a twenty-year practice of improvisation across multiple performed, choreographic and publishing platforms. As dancer, choreographer, writer and dramaturg, her work has been presented locally and internationally. Jo has taught improvisation to several generations of dancers at WAAPA, she is co-founder and director of the creative arts publication BIG Kids Magazine, co-founder of the feminist research collective The Ediths at ECU and artist-researcher with #FEAS -Feminist Educators Against Sexism. In 2019 Jo was awarded the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts Research Medal. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University.