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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213857303321

Titolo

Emerging bodies : the performance of worldmaking in dance and choreography / / edited by Gabriele Klein and Sandra Noeth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-8394-1596-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

TanzScripte ; 21

Disciplina

792.62

Soggetti

Dance - Social aspects

Dance

Choreography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1  Contents    5  Introduction    7  Dancing Politics: Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography    17  Between Intervention and Utopia: Dance Politics    29  Dance and Work: The Aesthetic and Political Potential of Dance    47  The Collective That Isn't One    61  Jérôme Bel and Myself: Gender and Intercultural Collaboration    73  Transnationalism and Contemporary African Dance: Faustin Linyekula    83  Flee(t)ing Dances! Initiatives for the Preservation and Communication of Intangible World Heritage in Museums    93  The Bluff of Contemporary Dance    107  Transcription - Materiality - Signature. Dancing and Writing between Resistance and Excess    119  Autobiography and the Coulisses: Narrator, Dancer, Spectator    137  Dance Images. Dance Films as an Example of the Representation and Production of Movement    149  Against the Beat. Music, Dance and the Image in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up    163  Gesture Capture: Paradigms in Interactive Music/ Dance Systems    183  Tables of Weights and Measures: Architecture and the Synchronous Objects Project    195  Synchronous Objects, Choreographic Objects, and the Translation of Dancing Ideas    207  Communicating, Distilling, Catalyzing. On the Creation of Dance Congress Worlds    225  Situational Worlds. Complicity as a Model of Collaboration    235  Protocols of Encounter: On Dance Dramaturgy    247  Notes on Contributors    257      264



Sommario/riassunto

The concept of »worldmaking« is based on the idea that ›the world‹ is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing ›dance worlds‹: through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form and dance material.  The essays in this volume critically reflect the predominant topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral - an embodiment of the Other in modernity. Moreover, they demonstrate that there is more than just one universal »world of dance«, but rather a multitude of interrelated dance worlds with more emerging every day.

»Die beiden Herausgeberinnen bieten [...] einen umfassenden Einblick in praktische Positionen und theoretische Diskurse der internationalen Tanz- und Performancekunst.«  Daniela Pillgrab, [rezens.tfm], 21.06.2012    »Auf wissenschaftlich anspruchsvollem Niveau wird [mit diesem Buch] die Annahme begründet, dass Tanz seine Wirksamkeit nicht in der Repräsentation existierender Strukturen und Systeme entfaltet, sondern gerade durch das Anbieten von Alternativen - von Utopien, entwickelt mit der Hilfe des Körpers und durch die Organisation der Bewegung.«  Up to Dance, 2 (2012)    Reviewed in:    http://danse.revues.org, 17.12.2014, Valeria De Luca