Select Publications
Books
2023, The persistence of dance: Choreography as concept and material in contemporary art, http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12347133
,2022, CHOREOGRAPHY, VISUAL ART AND EXPERIMENTAL COMPOSITION 1950S-1970S, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003253556
,2019, In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, Brannigan E, (ed.), UNSW Library, Sydney
,2014, Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, Brannigan E; Baxter V, (ed.), Wakefield Press, http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1172&cat=0&page=&featured=Y
,2011, Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image, Oxford University Press, New York
,, 2009, MAP Movement and Performance Symposium Papers, Brannigan ED, (ed.), Ausdance National, Canberra
Book Chapters
2024, ''Doing Space': The Last Resort', in Precarious Movements, NGV Publications, Melbourne, pp. 118 - 125, https://store.ngv.vic.gov.au/products/precarious-movements-choreography-and-the-museum?variant=41370204110931
,2024, 'Flow across the border: curating choreographic art at Tate', in Brannigan E; Wallis P; Mathews H; Lawson L; Kirpalani A (ed.), Precarious MOvements, NGV Publications, Melbourne, pp. 92 - 101
,2024, 'When Choreography Enters the Museum', in Brannigan E; Wallis P; Mathews H; Lawson L; Kirpalani A (ed.), Precarious Movements, NGV Publications, Melbourne, pp. 1 - 10
,2023, 'Precarious Movements: Contemporary Dance as Contemporary Art', in magnin E; Holling H; Feltman JP (ed.), Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care , pp. 278-292. London: Routledge 2023., Routledge, London, pp. 278 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003309987
,2022, 'Shelley Lasica's Adventures with a Thing Called Choreography,', in Mathews H (ed.), Shelley Lasica: WHEN I AM NOT THERE, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 39 - 61, https://publishing.monash.edu/product/shelley-lasica/
,2019, 'Whatever Happened to Dance Criticism?', in Thomas H; Prickett S (ed.), Routledge Companion to Dance Studies., Routledge, Oxon, UK, pp. 207 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315306551
,2018, 'Research as Co-Habitation: Experimental Composition across Theory and Practice', in Blades H; Meehan E (ed.), Performing Process Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice, Intellect (UK), Bristol, pp. 218 - 263, http://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-process
,2018, 'Dance in the Gallery: Process and Memory', in Wycherley M (ed.), Invisible Histories, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
,2018, 'Non-Competitive Body States: Corporeal Freedom and Innovation in Contemporary Dance', in Dodds S (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 283 - 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190639082.001.0001
,2016, 'Yvonne Rainer's 'Lives of Performers': an 'undisciplined' encounter with the avant-garde', in Rosenberg D (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, edn. 1, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 517 - 536
,2015, ''Dancing as Materiality: accumulation, texture, adornment and movement in Justene Williams' "The Curtain Breathed Deeply".', in Day C; Glass-Kantor A (ed.), Justene Williams - The Curtain Breathed Deeply, Artspace, Monash University Museum of Art, Sydney, pp. 45 - 47
,2014, 'Between Dance Practice and Choreography', in Brannigan E; Baxter V (ed.), Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Aust, pp. 6 - 8, http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1172&cat=0&page=&featured=Y
,2014, 'Bodies of Thought', in Baxter V; Brannigan E (ed.), Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, S. Aust, pp. 1 - 3, http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1172&cat=0&page=&featured=Y
,2014, 'Choreographing Texture', in Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, Wakefield Press, Kent Town SA, pp. 138 - 142, http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1172&cat=0&page=&featured=Y
,2014, 'Dance and the World: The Duality of Craft and Content', in Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, Wakefield Press, Kent Town SA, pp. 46 - 47
,2014, 'Dance Theatre: Expanding the Form', in Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, pp. 92 - 93
,2014, 'Dance: Dance and Film', in Kelly M (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics, edn. 2nd, Oxford University Press, New York, NY
,2014, 'Dancing at the Intersections of Time, Space and Language', in Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, Wakefield Press, Kent Town SA, pp. 132 - 133
,2003, 'Choreography', in Whiteoak J; Scott-Maxwell A (ed.), Currency Companion to Music & Dance in Australia, edn. Original, Currency House Inc., Sydney, pp. 130 - 131
,Edited Books
Brannigan E; wallis P; Mathews H; Lawson L; Kirpalani A, (eds.), 2024, Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, National Gallery of Victoria Publications, Melbourne, https://store.ngv.vic.gov.au/products/precarious-movements-choreography-and-the-museum?variant=41370204110931
Journal articles
2023, 'Dancing into the Museum', Art Guide Australia, pp. 82 - 89, https://artguide.com.au/dancing-into-the-museum/
,2022, 'Choreography as Concept, Dancing as Material', On (Un)Knowns, Performance Research, 26:4, 26, pp. 24 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2021.2005945
,2020, 'Artist’s Self-Archiving Toolkit', Critical Dialogues: Archives, Practice and the Independent Choreographer, 13, pp. 70 - 75
,2020, 'Vicki Van Hout Interview with Erin Brannigan', Critical Dialogues 13: Archives, Practice and the Independent Choreographer, 13, pp. 38 - 46, https://issuu.com/criticalpath/docs/critical-dialogue-13-singlepg
,2019, 'Red Shoes', The International Journal of Screendance, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v10i0.6822
,2019, 'Talking Back: What Dance might make of Badiou’s philosophical project', Performance Philosophy, 4, pp. 354 - 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.21476/PP.2019.42240
,2017, 'Context, Discipline, and Understanding: The Poetics of Shelley Lasica’s Gallery-Based Work', Performance Paradigm, 13, pp. 97 - 117, http://www.performanceparadigm.net/index.php/journal/article/view/196/193
,2017, 'Performance, Choreography, and the Gallery: Materiality, Attention, Agency, Sensation, and Instability', Performance Paradigm, 13, pp. 1 - 6, https://www.performanceparadigm.net/index.php/journal/article/view/190
,2016, 'Breaths, Falls and Eddies in All this Can Happen: A Dialogue'', The International Journal of Screendance, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v7i0.5463
,2016, 'Spirals within Spirals: Vortex Temporum at Sydney Festival', The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/spirals-within-spirals-vortex-temporum-at-the-sydney-festival-52687
,2016, 'Positively Unassertive: Dancing in the Art Gallery of NSW', Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet, 45, pp. 26 - 29
,2016, 'Propositions for Doing Dancing', Runway, http://propositions_for_doing_dancing_-_runway.pdf/
,2016, 'Soft is Fast: Simone Forti in the 1960s and After', Performance Paradigm, 37, pp. 289 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2016.1215821
,2015, 'What is it that Dances Something Else?', Critical Dialogues, 5, pp. 12 - 13, http://criticalpath.org.au/resource_category/critical-dialogues/
,2015, 'Writing Dancing (Sydney)', Critical Dialogues, 5, pp. 4 - 8, http://criticalpath.org.au/resource_category/critical-dialogues/
,2015, ''Danse: An Anthology. ED. Noémie Solomon'', Dance Research Journal, 47, pp. 107 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0149767715000054
,2015, ''Choreography and the Gallery: Curation as Revision'', Dance Research Journal, 47, pp. 5 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0149767715000054
,2015, 'Danse: An Anthology Edited by Noémie Solomon. 2014. Dijon: Les Presses du Reel. 325 pp., writer biographies. $34.95 cloth.', Dance Research Journal, 47, pp. 107 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014976771500011x
,2013, 'The Anatomy of Dance Composition', Choreologia, pp. 65 - 69
,2012, 'Laurence Louppe’s Poetics of Contemporary Dance (London: Dancebooks, 2010)', Dance Research Journal, 44, pp. 101 - 104
,2012, 'Poetics of Contemporary Dance by Laurence Louppe. Translated by Sally Gardner. 2010. Alton, UK: Dance Books. 265 pp. including notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 cloth.', Dance Research Journal, 44, pp. 101 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767711000398
,2012, 'Transposing Style: Martin Del Amo’s new Solo Works', Brolga, 36, pp. 25 - 30
,2011, 'Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s by Carrie Lambert-Beatty. 2008. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 362 pp., illustrations, notes, index. $34.95 cloth.', Dance Research Journal, 43, pp. 114 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/danceresearchj.43.1.0114
,2011, 'Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s', Dance Research Journal, 42, pp. 114 - 117
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