Contemporary choreography : a critical reader / / edited by Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2018
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (573 pages)
• Disciplina: 792.8/2
• Soggetto topico: Choreography
• Persona (resp. second.): ButterworthJo; WildschutLiesbeth <1952->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter General introduction: studying contemporary choreography / JO BUTTERWORTH -- chapter Section introduction -- chapter 1 Knowing through dance-making: choreography, practical knowledge and practice-as-research / ANNA PAKES -- chapter 2 Expert-intuitive and deliberative processes: struggles in (the wording of ) creative decision-making in ‘dance’ / SUSAN MELROSE -- chapter 3 ‘Throwing like a girl’? Gender in a transnational world / SUSAN LEIGH FOSTER -- chapter 4 Choreography that poses problems / BOJANA CVEJIC´ -- chapter 5 Choreography as research: iteration, object, context / BEN SPATZ -- chapter Section introduction -- chapter 6 Too many cooks? A framework for dance making and devising / JO BUTTERWORTH -- chapter 7 Facilitating choreographic process / LARRY LAVENDER -- chapter 8 Velvet Petal: getting lost / FLEUR DARKIN -- chapter 9 Risk-taking and group dance improvisation / JOAO DA SILVA -- chapter 10 Dancing strategies and moving identities: the contributions independent contemporary dancers make to the choreographic process / JENNY ROCHE -- chapter 11 Jonathan Burrows’ Postdance Conference keynote address, Stockholm 2015 / JONATHAN BURROWS -- chapter Intervention / PEGGY OLISLAEGERS -- chapter Section introduction -- chapter 12 Dance dramaturgical agency / PIL HANSEN -- chapter 13 The catalytic function of dramaturgy: working on actions in choreographic processes / KONSTANTINA GEORGELOU -- chapter 14 Decentred dramaturgy: non-structural contexts in contemporary choreography -- chapter Section introduction -- chapter 15 Dancing around exclusion: an examination of the issues of social inclusion within choreographic practice in the community / SARA HOUSTON -- chapter 16 Choreographic approaches in the community context / DIANE AMANS -- chapter 17 Escola Livre de Danca da Mare in Rio de Janeiro: a ground to share / SILVIA SOTER -- chapter 18 Experiencing space: some implications for site-specific dance performance / VICTORIA HUNTER -- chapter 19 Whispering Birds: site-specific dance, affect and emotion / KAREN N. BARBOUR -- chapter Section introduction -- chapter 20 Principles of African choreography: some perspectives from Ghana / FRANCIS NII-YARTEY -- chapter 21 The body as a site of power: an artistic case study on contemporary choreography in the Arab world / SANDRA NOETH AND SAMAR HADDAD KING -- chapter 22 Beyond the intercultural to the accented body: an Australian perspective / CHERYL STOCK -- chapter 23 Minority visibility and hip hop choreography: France 2015 / FELICIA MCCARREN -- chapter 24 Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan: intertwined journeys in-between dance cultures / GUY COOLS -- chapter 25 Akram Khan on the politics of choreographing touch / ROYONA MITRA -- chapter Section introduction -- chapter 26 In search of Asian modernity: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s body aesthetics in the era of globalisation / YA-PING CHEN -- chapter 27 The body as the stage of abstract space: sculpting of spectatorship in Meg Stuart’s choreography / JEROEN FABIUS -- chapter 28 Hi, who are you? On choreography and the aged dancer / EFVA LILJA -- chapter 29 Inclusive choreography: Lucy Bennett and Stopgap Dance Company / SHO SHIBATA -- chapter Section introduction -- chapter 30 Choreographic performance systems / JOHANNES BIRRINGER -- chapter 31 Virtually touching: embodied engagement in telematic and virtual reality performance / SITA POPAT -- chapter 32 How does motion capture mediate dance? / LAURA KARREMAN -- chapter 33 Social media and choreographic practice: creative tools for collaboration, co-creation and creative practice / SOPHY SMITH.
• Sommario/riassunto: This second edition of Contemporary Choreography has been completely revised to present an fully up-to-date range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and traditional understandings of dance making. The book features contributions from a global range of practitioners and researchers, investigating the field in seven broad domains from Conceptual and Philosophical concerns to Challenging Aesthetics. Twenty three new chapters capture the essence and progress of choreography in the twenty-first century, supporting and encouraging rigorous thinking and research for future generations of dance practitioners and scholars.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary choreography
• ISBN: 1-138-67998-4; 1-317-19157-9; 1-317-19158-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970718903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II