Telephone

McKenzie, Vahri (2014). Telephone performance text, inConversation. Perth, Australia: Spectrum Project Space. A cloze script designed for an interdisciplinary collaboration of four artists who tailored the script to perform personal dating advertisements in a video installation. Relationships between the characters emerge and dissolve; themes include 

Underscore Alchemy: Extending the Underscore for creative artists

McKenzie, V. (2014). Underscore Alchemy: Extending the Underscore for creative artists. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices 6(2), 159-173. Underscore Alchemy is a research project designed to investigate how artists from disciplines outside the performing arts might engage with Nancy Stark Smith’s collaborative improvisation model, 

Extending Underscore Alchemy

McKenzie, V. (2014). Extending Underscore Alchemy. Brolga: An Australian journal about dance 39, December 2014, 35-42. ‘Underscore Alchemy’ is a research project designed to investigate how artists from disciplines outside the performing arts might engage with Nancy Stark Smith’s collaborative improvisation model, the Underscore. As 

Using the spectrum to theorise apparent oppositions in creative writing doctorates

McKenzie, V. (2012). Using the spectrum to theorise apparent oppositions in creative writing doctorates. In D. Hecq (Ed.), The Creativity Market: Creative writing in the 21st century (pp. 148-162).  Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. The questions raised by placing creative research within an academic context that 

Agent Provocateur

McKenzie, V. (2011). Agent Provocateur. <proximity> contact improvisation, new dance, movement improvisation 14(3), 4-7). Republished (2012) <proximity> contact improvisation, new dance, movement improvisation 15(1), 27-30. This is the major textual work to document Felix Ruckert’s 2011 Australian visit in which he offered workshops for Xplore