Issue #51 of Movement Research Performance Journal continues to experiment with approaches to engaging with contemporary performance through the medium of print. This issue of the MRPJ offers original textual explorations of ideas, as well as photo essays and visual experiments that present options for how we consider the place of dance in the contemporary moment. Functioning as an object that is both form and content, the front and back covers of Issue #51 feature images of Elizabeth Garren, Wendy Perron and Mona Sulzman dancing Splang in Trisha Brown’s loft in 1978. The photos were taken by a teenage Christopher…