Terpsichore is Bridge Books’ imprint devoted to dance, performance art, choreography, and the translation of live and time-based practices into print. It provides a publishing platform for artists, choreographers, writers, and researchers working with movement, performance scores, documentation, criticism, archives, and experimental forms of notation. Projects may range from artist books and performance scores to histories, critical texts, photographic documentation, and hybrid publications that preserve or extend ephemeral practices. The imprint treats publishing itself as another site through which performance can be documented, interpreted, circulated, and reimagined.

Importantly, Terpsichore will also publish diagrammatic, choreographic, instructional, and interactionist writing and artwork—work that may function as scores, instructions, diagrams, propositions, systems, prompts, maps, participatory structures, or frameworks for action and encounter. This creates a productive point of connection with Allen’s expanded approach to contemporary poetics, while Terpsichore situates these practices more specifically in relation to performance, interaction, embodiment, and time-based artistic practice.