Abstract

With our short intervention we hope to contribute to the exciting debates that create and define the growing field of dance/law research. We start by introducing our Choreography of Consent research network as a new platform for supporting existing and future research at the intersections of law and dance. In turn we reflect on how such mapping and platforming work remains challenging as it demands an especially vigilant, caring and consistent re-evaluation of how, who, and for who questions. Looking back at our line of work over the past years, we reflect on changes in our joint approach to legal objects via movement and dance. We begin by tracing common threads between our past joint work on deletion and our more recent collaboration on the legal category of consent. We propose that a moving research method can at once sit firmly within dance/law as “name and the semblance of a shape, form and manifesto” (Call for Papers), and help to advance and shift understandings within this moving field. To do this, we turn to practical illustrations and discuss a workshop we hosted in December 2024. We focus on a particular example, of a dance score called ‘make a contract with the floor to hold you up’ (Macdonald 2024) to show how a moving research method can advance and make explicit understandings of the legal category of consent.

How to Cite:

Macdonald, A. & Jacob, M. A., (2026) “A moving research method: two examples from screendance”, Law Text Culture 29(1), 35–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.14453/ltc.1862