AUTHOR=Nikolai Jennifer 

TITLE=Move: Durational Dance-Making as We Age

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

VOLUME=Volume 4 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sports-and-active-living/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.795526

DOI=10.3389/fspor.2022.795526

ISSN=2624-9367

ABSTRACT=Abstract 


Dance making and moving supports positive aging approaches to aesthetic, cultural, and social meanings, shaping dancers' lives. My perspective is informed, by making dance as a durational, sustained practice in the life of a long-life mover. Positioned as a practice-oriented researcher, I am surrounded by inspiring authors and artists who embrace maturity with improvisational making. 

This perspective piece reflects on making Move; a durational practice-oriented research process. Move contextualises durational elements I associate with the life of a mover. My writing, companions improvising with my hand-held camera in isolation, in my neighbourhood on Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland's North Shore.


This perspective piece opens a process I refer to as a camera-dancer dyad; a duet between dancer and camera; making in isolation, as we age. Furthermore, by embracing the accessibility of everyday recording devices as dancing partners, dance making with mobile cameras becomes a playful partnership with a long life.