Experimental dance and the somatics of language : thinking in micromovement / / Megan V. Nicely

• Autore: Nicely Megan V
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 pages)
• Disciplina: 792.8
• Soggetto topico: Dance - Philosophy; Nonverbal communication; Language and languages in art; Language and languages - Philosophy
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: The Micropolitics of Micromovement -- The Interval -- Vibration -- Adaptation -- Transmission -- References -- Chapter 3: Interval: Trisha Brown and the Space Between Words -- Sensing Human Scale -- Thinking in Activity -- Between the Body and Language -- Beyond the Visual Apparatus -- A Different Body Attitude -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Vibration: Kasai Akira and Voice Power -- Apocalypse of Words -- Voice Power Training -- Friction Across Time and Space -- Unsettling Butoh Histories -- Between Organic and Inorganic -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Adaptation: Deborah Hay and "Call It That" -- Art and Life -- Practicing with Language -- Writing and Editing -- Lecture-Performance -- Asserting Variations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Language as Agent: Doing and Allowing -- Uncanny Kinesthesia -- Making Sense of Language -- Somatics of the Performative -- Words Matter -- The Movement Underneath -- References -- Chapter 7: Movement's Return: Sensations in Context -- Sensitivity -- Suspend -- Discompose -- Situate -- Sequencing Sensation -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Impeccably crafted. Nicely articulates the ways in which language manifests in sensation and movement. She asks important and nuanced questions about presence and awareness of ourselves and others in changing spaces and relationships, separated by Covid, ignited by social protest. An invaluable text to gain philosophical currency for sensate experience, offering exciting new formulations for dance studies. Tanya Calamoneri, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, author of Butoh America In Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language, Nicely investigates the use of language in dance practice by considering the somatics of micromovement in three phases vibration, interval, and adaptation. Nicely's ingenious move, after Deleuze, is to give language a body on the dance floor. Language, reconfigured as a source of sensation, becomes a critical analytic tool for Nicely to think through dance works past and present, contributing to performance studies ongoing inquiry into how speech acts. Melinda Buckwalter, Managing Director, Five College Dance, author of Composing while Dancing This book is about dances relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the micromovements elicited by languages affective forces, and the micropolitics of the thought-sensations that arise when movement and words accompany one another within choreographic contexts. Situating itself where theory meets practicethe zone where ideas arise to be tested, the book draws on embodied research in practices within the lineages of American postmodern dance and Japanese butoh, set in dialog with affect-based philosophies and somatics. Understanding that language is felt, both when uttered and when unspoken, this book speaks to the choreographic thinking that takes place when language is considered a primary element in creating the sensorium. Megan V. Nicely is an artist/scholar whose research involves choreographic experimentation through the medium of the body. She has published in TDR, Choreographic Practices, Performance Research Journal, and others, and her company Megan Nicely/Dance has performed on both U.S. coasts, in the U.K., and in Europe. She is Associate Professor of Performing Arts and Social Justice/Dance at University of San Francisco.
• Titolo autorizzato: Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language
• ISBN: 9783031302961
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910751395703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New World Choreographies Series