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Record Nr.

UNINA9911047870503321

Autore

Velsinger Antje <p>Antje Velsinger, freie Choreographin, Deutschland </p>

Titolo

The Bodies We Are (Not) : A Choreographic Research on Practicing Self-Distancing / Antje Velsinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2024

ISBN

3-8394-7090-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

TanzScripte

Disciplina

410.5

Soggetti

Dance

Choreography

Artistic Research

Culture

Body

Theatre

Theatre Studies

Dance Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    i Contents    5 Acknowledgement    7 1. Introduction    9 2. State of the Art    29 3. On Methods    55 4. The first artistic research project "The bodies we are"    63 5. A historical perspective on the body and the ability to play with self-distancing    125 6. The second artistic research project "Let's face it!".    137 7. Conclusion    187 References    199

Sommario/riassunto

In Western neo-liberal society, the human body is increasingly used as an »identity project« and »designable object«. Antje Velsinger investigates these specific roles of the body and develops choreographic strategies for becoming unfamiliar to the own self and play as two means for emancipating the body from the neo-liberal imperative of optimization and control. Theoretical and practical artistic perspectives are in constant dialogue throughout this study. It uses the choreographic field as a gray area between theory and practice to imagine, propose, and rehearse an alternative approach to the body.



»Vor allem die anschaulichen Berichte aus der Probenpraxis und damit die Offenlegung von Wissen aus zeitgenössischen Tanzproben, das sonst meist verborgen bleibt, machen Spaß bei der Lektüre. Hier liegt insgesamt das große Potenzial von Velsingers Studie, da es sich dabei um eine der ersten Publikationen im deutschsprachigen Raum handelt, die eine künstlerische Forschung in dieser Form vermittelt.«

Besprochen in: www.portalkunstgeschichte.de, 15.05.2024, Melanine Obraz tanz, Jahrbuch 2025, Falk Schreiber