By Professor Erin Brannigan

Books

Brannigan E, 2026, Cinédanse, chorégraphie et image en mouvement – Pour une généalogie féminine, Déchery C, (ed.), les presses du réel, Dijon, France, https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12011&menu=0

Brannigan E, 2023, The persistence of dance: Choreography as concept and material in contemporary art, http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12347133

Brannigan E, 2022, CHOREOGRAPHY, VISUAL ART AND EXPERIMENTAL COMPOSITION 1950S-1970S, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003253556

Brannigan E; Baxter V; Gallasch K; Baylis J; Thomson E; Card A, 2019, In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, Brannigan E, (ed.), UNSW Library, Sydney

Brannigan E, 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

Brannigan ED, 2011, Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image, Oxford University Press, New York

Brannigan ED, 2010, Moving Across Disciplines: Dance and the Moving Image, Currency House

, 2009, MAP Movement and Performance Symposium Papers, Brannigan ED, (ed.), Ausdance National, Canberra

Book Chapters

Brannigan E, 2026, 'Dance and the Museum', in Butterworth J; Hunter V (ed.), Contemporary Choreography A Critical Reader, Routledge, pp. 297 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032645759-25

Brannigan E; Taumoepeau L, 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

Brannigan E; Wood C, 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

Brannigan E; Wallis P, 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

Brannigan E; Lawson L, 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

Brannigan E, 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/

Brannigan E, 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

Wait N; Brannigan E, 2019, 'Non-Competitive Body States', in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 283 - 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190639082.013.11

Brannigan E; Thomson L; Day M, 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

Brannigan E; Day M; Thomson L, 2018, 'Research as co-habitation: Experimental composition across theory and practice', in Performing Process Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice, pp. 83 - 98

Brannigan E, 2018, 'Dance in the Gallery: Process and Memory', in Wycherley M (ed.), Invisible Histories, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland

Brannigan E; Wait N, 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

Brannigan ED, 2016, 'Yvonne Rainer's 'Lives of Performers': an 'undisciplined' encounter with the avant-garde', in Rosenberg D (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 517 - 536

Brannigan ED, 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

Brannigan ED, 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

Brannigan ED, 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

Brannigan ED, 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

Brannigan ED, 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

Brannigan ED, 2014, 'Dance Theatre: Expanding the Form', in Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, pp. 92 - 93

Brannigan ED, 2014, 'Dance: Dance and Film', in Kelly M (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, New York, NY

Brannigan ED, 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

Brannigan ED; Brannigan E, 2009, 'The Life of Dance', in , Campbelltown Arts Centre, pp. 89 - 90

Brannigan ED; Card A, 2003, 'Choreography', in Whiteoak J; Scott-Maxwell A (ed.), Currency Companion to Music & Dance in Australia, Currency House Inc., Sydney, pp. 130 - 131

Edited Books

Brannigan E; wallis P; Mathews H; Lawson L; Kirpalani A; Brannigan E, (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

Brannigan E; Murphy S; Reihana T, 2024, 'Moving South: The Reconceptualisation of Dance Research in the 2020s', Performance Paradigm, pp. 1 - 8, https://www.performanceparadigm.net/index.php/journal/article/view/286/322

Brannigan E, 2023, 'Dancing into the Museum', Art Guide Australia, pp. 82 - 89, https://artguide.com.au/dancing-into-the-museum/

Brannigan E, 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

Brannigan E; Theodore Z, 2021, 'Ange Goh Body Loss', Performance Review, https://performancereview.online/reviews/body-loss-angela-goh

Brannigan E, 2020, 'Artist’s Self-Archiving Toolkit', Critical Dialogues: Archives, Practice and the Independent Choreographer, 13, pp. 70 - 75

Brannigan E; Van Hout V, 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

Brannigan E, 2019, 'Red Shoes', The International Journal of Screendance, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v10i0.6822

Brannigan E, 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

Brannigan E, 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

Brannigan E; Mathews H, 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

Brannigan ED; Mees C, 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

Brannigan ED, 2016, 'Spirals within Spirals: Vortex Temporum at Sydney Festival', The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/spirals-within-spirals-vortex-temporum-at-the-sydney-festival-52687

Brannigan ED, 2016, 'Positively Unassertive: Dancing in the Art Gallery of NSW', Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet, 45, pp. 26 - 29

Brannigan E; Newton R, 2016, 'Propositions for Doing Dancing', Runway, http://propositions_for_doing_dancing_-_runway.pdf/

Brannigan ED; Morse M, 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

Brannigan ED, 2015, 'What is it that Dances Something Else?', Critical Dialogues, 5, pp. 12 - 13, http://criticalpath.org.au/resource_category/critical-dialogues/

Brannigan ED, 2015, 'Writing Dancing (Sydney)', Critical Dialogues, 5, pp. 4 - 8, http://criticalpath.org.au/resource_category/critical-dialogues/

Brannigan ED, 2015, ''Danse: An Anthology. ED. Noémie Solomon'', Dance Research Journal, 47, pp. 107 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0149767715000054

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