Table of Contents

[1] 

Opening gambit

Karen Christopher

[2]

Foreword

Season Butler

[3] 

Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects

Duet collaborations, 2010-21

[4]

Introductory fragment #1: the two of you 

Karen Christopher

[5]

Between Two Somethings

J. R. Carpenter

[6]

Duet Walk

Karen Christopher & Mary Paterson

[7]

Resonance of Two

Karen Christopher

[8]

Six Practices of Learning Together in Havruta

Orit Kent

[9]

Introductory fragment #2: heart and lungs 

Karen Christopher

[10]

Consider This (Control Signal)

Mary Paterson

[11]

Staying with the tremble

Eirini Kartsaki

[12]

What never stops?

Joe Kelleher

[13]

Invisible partners remain themselves inside

Litó Walkey

[14]

The Promise of More to Come (So Below)

Mary Paterson

[15]

On creating a climate of attention: the composition of our work

Karen Christopher & Sophie Grodin

[16]

Not so much balanced as balancing (miles & miles)

Mary Paterson

[17]

The collaborative artistic working process of Control Signal:
A drama-linguistic exploration of the shifting of roles

Andrea Milde

[18]

Introductory fragment #3: tangled

Karen Christopher

[19]

Imagining Seven Falls 

Mary Paterson

[20]

Introductory fragment #4: a lot of rope

Karen Christopher

[21]

Always On Uneven Ground

Rajni Shah

[22]

TwoFold: Questions

Mary Paterson

[23]

A Physics Duet

David Berman

[24]

Conclusion: I have been thinking of you this whole time

Mary Paterson

[25]

Diffractions: record of a passage

David Williams

[26]

Contributors’ biographies

[27]

Acknowledgments 

About the Author

Mary Paterson is an independent writer, researcher and curator. With Intellect she previously published Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation (2020), co-edited with Roberta Mock. 

Karen Christopher is a collaborative performance maker, performer, and teacher. Her company, Haranczak/ Navarre Performance Projects, has been engaged in creating a series of duet performances. Karen was a member of the influential Chicago-based Goat Island performance group for 20 years.

Reviews

'Entanglements of Two works, like much performance work, by slow and considered associative thinking. Back and forth ideas go, page and eye, words and reader, meaning and mind, reflecting upon ten years of duet performances whilst also – as the back cover puts it – ‘exploring the practical, philosophical, and aesthetic implications of working in pairs and offer[ing] wider reflections on the duet as a concept in artistic and social life’. [...] So far I think this book is a call to action, a learning tool.'
*Rupert Loydell, Tears in the Fence*

‘This book provides a fascinating insight into the creative working process of a particular artist, whilst providing a blueprint for how collaboration might take place. There are many passages which might provide inspiration for
other artists and overall the book makes a moving and heartfelt plea for interpersonal open-ness and mutual investment.’
*Dr Sarah Gorman, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Roehampton*