Case Study 3: The Despair of Petrichor (2016): Choreographer, Analyst, Audience, Dancer

Through this last case study the book turns to my own work, allowing me both to relate findings to a choreographer’s perspective, to see the limits of the choreographer’s power, and to analyse the link between the choreographer’s and the spectator’s experience. This chapter also exemplifies the usefulness of my three-fold relationship with the work through examining instances in which I searched for an effect as a choreographer, which I only perceived as audience member—through trial and error, and which underlying structure I understood only as analyst.