A moving research method: two examples from screendance

This contribution to this special issue of Law Text Culture focuses on Macdonald and Jacob’s collaborative work in dance and law, which emerged from a shared frustration with the capacity of words to examine the physical and affective movement of law. This short intervention articulates their method with reference to two examples of dance-based research, made early on in their collaboration, titled Walk (redaction) (Macdonald 2016b) and Singing in the rain (Fraudulent) (Macdonald 2016a). Exploring these examples of practice allows for an articulation of two main concerns in their work: how time gets folded into the relationship between dance and law, and the question of whether and how we can rely on the body.