Too many cooks

This chapter provides rationale for the model together with further explanation of its guiding principles, including the central concept of the dance artist practitioner and potential roles in a choreographic situation. It focuses on the Didactic-Democratic framework model, the original sources of research and findings. The model is then explicated as a continuum of choreographic processes in which the roles of choreographer and dancer participants may change. Traditional approaches to choreography, in which the choreographer is considered expert and the dancer as instrument, are placed at one end of this continuum. At the other end lies the notion of co-ownership where, perhaps by collaborative methods, or by collective decision making processes, the creation of dance as art is attempted by more than one artist, working together. Finally, perceived strengths and weaknesses of dance devising processes are characterised, analysed and exemplified.