Choreography and Corporeality [electronic resource] : Relay in Motion /
DeFrantz, Thomas F.editor.
Rothfield, Philipa.editor.
Dance travels as does thought about dance. This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our emotions and prejudices, and our sense of public and private space. In so doing, they offer a multi-layered response to ideas of affect and emotion, culture and politics, and ultimately, the place of dance and art itself within society. The chapters in this collection arise from a number of different political and historical contexts. By teasing out their detail and situating dance within them, art is given a political charge. That charge is informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Rancière and Luce Irigaray as well as their forebears such as Spinoza, Plato and Freud. Taken together, Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion puts thought into motion, without forgetting its origins in the social world.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
1. RELAY; Philipa Rothfield and Thomas F. DeFrantz -- PART I. Rethinking Choreography -- 2. Tinkering Away; Philipa Rothfield -- 3.Choreography as Meshwork; Daisuke Muto -- 4.Flickering Photology; Nigel Stewart 5. Caribbean Dance, British Perspectives and the Choreography of Beverly Glean; ‘Funmi Adewole -- PART II. Circuits and Circulation -- 6. Festivals and Local Identities in a Global Economy; Janet O’Shea -- 7. Rhythmic Operations; Lim How Ngean -- 8.Embodying Interaction in Argentinean Tango and Sports Dance; Susanne Ravn -- 9.Speaking Africa; Franz Anton Cramer -- PART III. Affectivities -- 10. The Economy of Shame or Why Dance Cannot Fail; Elizabeth Dempster -- 11. Dancing and Thinking Politics with Deleuze and Rancière; Christel Stalpaert -- 12. Dancing the Downward Slide; Aoife McGrath -- 13. Afrofuturist Remains; Thomas F. DeFrantz -- PART IV. Sites of Representation -- 14. Discipline and Asian American Dance; Yutian Wong -- 15. Corporeal Memories; Hanna Järvinen -- 16. Violence, Performance, and Relationality; Ramsay Burt -- 17. Dance in Chile; Adeline Maxwell -- 18. Dancing the Political; Lena Hammergren and Susan Leigh Foster.
Dance travels as does thought about dance. This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our emotions and prejudices, and our sense of public and private space. In so doing, they offer a multi-layered response to ideas of affect and emotion, culture and politics, and ultimately, the place of dance and art itself within society. The chapters in this collection arise from a number of different political and historical contexts. By teasing out their detail and situating dance within them, art is given a political charge. That charge is informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Rancière and Luce Irigaray as well as their forebears such as Spinoza, Plato and Freud. Taken together, Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion puts thought into motion, without forgetting its origins in the social world.
Performing arts.
Performing Arts.