Exhausting Dance

Author : Andre Lepecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134230891

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The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US. Through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, this new generation of choreographers challenge our understanding of dance by exhausting the concept of movement. Their work demands to be read as performed extensions of the radical politics implied in performance art, in post-structuralist and critical theory, in post-colonial theory, and in critical race studies. In this far-ranging and exceptional study, Andre Lepecki brilliantly analyzes the work of the choreographers: * Jerome Bel (France) * Juan Dominguez (Spain) * Trisha Brown (US) * La Ribot (Spain) * Xavier Le Roy (France-Germany) * Vera Mantero (Portugal) and visual and performance artists: * Bruce Nauman (US) * William Pope.L (US). This book offers a significant and radical revision of the way we think about dance, arguing for the necessity of a renewed engagement between dance studies and experimental artistic and philosophical practices.

Author : Andre Lepecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134230907

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Exhausting Dance by Andre Lepecki Pdf

The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US. Through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, this new generation of choreographers challenge our understanding of dance by exhausting the concept of movement. Their work demands to be read as performed extensions of the radical politics implied in performance art, in post-structuralist and critical theory, in post-colonial theory, and in critical race studies. In this far-ranging and exceptional study, Andre Lepecki brilliantly analyzes the work of the choreographers: * Jerome Bel (France) * Juan Dominguez (Spain) * Trisha Brown (US) * La Ribot (Spain) * Xavier Le Roy (France-Germany) * Vera Mantero (Portugal) and visual and performance artists: * Bruce Nauman (US) * William Pope.L (US). This book offers a significant and radical revision of the way we think about dance, arguing for the necessity of a renewed engagement between dance studies and experimental artistic and philosophical practices.

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199314218

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment by Mark Franko Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device, the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory, pedagogy, theory of history, reconstruction as a methodology, testimony and witnessing, theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature, and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.

Author : Susan Manning,Lucia Ruprecht
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252036767

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New German Dance Studies by Susan Manning,Lucia Ruprecht Pdf

Susan Manning is a professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University and the author of Ecstasy and the Demon: The Dances of Mary Wigman. Book jacket.

Author : André Lepecki
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819566128

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Of the Presence of the Body by André Lepecki Pdf

Writing at the dynamic intersection of dance and performance studies.

Author : Jens Richard Giersdorf,Yutian Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135173487

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The Routledge Dance Studies Reader by Jens Richard Giersdorf,Yutian Wong Pdf

Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the mid-to-late twentieth century, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz and ethnic dance.

Author : Megan V. Nicely
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031302961

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Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language by Megan V. Nicely Pdf

This book is about dance’s relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the micromovements elicited by language’s 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 practice—the 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.

Author : Katia Savrami
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527543331

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Tracing the Landscape of Dance in Greece by Katia Savrami Pdf

This volume critically discusses dance’s role as an art form in modern Greek society, exploring both ethnographic and cross-cultural issues. The contents of the book unfold in parallel and intertwining dialogues and discourses incorporating reflections on philosophical and scientific subjects and experiences relating to dance. The investigation places ballet, modern and contemporary dance within the Greek context, and juxtaposes these genres with international dance making. It also uncovers the factors that have affected the development of dance practices in Greece during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and considers the reasons why, until now, dance, as an embodied art form, has not been established in Greece as an autonomous academic discipline with its own sustainable educational structures. It paints a picture of the past and the present, while also serving to inspire future artist-practitioners and scholars to advocate and support the discipline of dance in Greece.

Author : Aoife McGrath,Emma Meehan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319667393

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Dance Matters in Ireland by Aoife McGrath,Emma Meehan Pdf

This book addresses the need for critical scholarship about contemporary dance practices in Ireland. Bringing together key voices from a new wave of scholarship to examine recent practice and research in the field of contemporary dance, it examines the excitingly diverse range of choreographers and works that are transforming Ireland’s performance landscape. The first section provides a chronologically-ordered collection of critical essays to ground the reader in some of the most important issues currently at play in contemporary dance in Ireland. The second section then provides an interrogation of individual choreographers’ processes. The book traces new choreographic work and trends through a broad array of topics, including somatics in performance, screendance, cultural trauma, dance archives, affect studies, feminist perspectives, choreographic process, the dancer’s voice, interdisciplinarity, and pedagogical paradigms.

Author : Dr. Sherril Dodds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190639105

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition by Dr. Sherril Dodds Pdf

In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, and danced meanings. In formalized competitions, dancers are judged according to industry standards to accumulate social capital and financial gain. Within the capitalist economy, dancing bodies compete to win positions in prestigious companies, while choreographers hustle to secure funding and attract audiences. On the social dance floor, dancers participate in dance-offs that often include unspoken, but nevertheless complex, rules of bodily engagement. And the media attraction to the drama and spectacle of competition regularly plays out in reality television shows, film documentaries, and Hollywood cinema. Drawing upon a diverse collection of dances across history and geography, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.

Author : Marina Gržinić,Aneta Stojnić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319783437

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Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance by Marina Gržinić,Aneta Stojnić Pdf

This book investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues. Departing from the relationship between corporeality and performing arts (such as theater, dance, and performance), it turns to a pluriversal understanding of embodiment that resides in the extra violent conditions of contemporary global necro-capitalism in order to conduct a thorough analysis that goes beyond arts and culture. It brings together theoretical academic texts by established and emerging scholars alike, exposing perspectives form different fields (philosophy, cultural studies, performance studies, theater studies, and dance studies) as well as from different geopolitical contexts. Through a series of thematic clusters, the study explores the reactivation of the body as a site of a new meaning-making politics.

Author : Bojana Cvejic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137437396

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Choreographing Problems by Bojana Cvejic Pdf

This book illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers. A discussion of key issues in contemporary performance from the viewpoint of Deleuze, Spinoza and Bergson is accompanied by intricate analyses of seven groundbreaking dance performances.

Author : Tecumapese Morning Star
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387981083

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Dancing from the Streets of Alajuela 3 by Tecumapese Morning Star Pdf

Author : Fiona Macintosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191634383

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The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World by Fiona Macintosh Pdf

When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his source of inspiration; and when Isadora Duncan and her contemporaries looked for alternatives to the strictures of classical ballet, they looked to ancient Greek vases for models for what they termed 'natural' movement. This is the first book to examine systematically the long history of the impact of ideas about ancient Greek and Roman dance on modern theatrical and choreographic practices. With contributions from eminent classical scholars, dance historians, theatre specialists, modern literary critics, and art historians, as well as from contemporary practitioners, it offers a very wide conspectus on an under-explored but central aspect of classical reception, dance and theatre history, and the history of ideas.

Author : Eden Robinson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307363930

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Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson Pdf

“Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional world, a hidden universe of premonition, pain and power.” --Thomas King Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family’s handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach—a shore famed for its sasquatch sightings. Infused by turns with darkness and humour, Monkey Beach is a spellbinding voyage into the long, cool shadows of B.C.’s Coast Mountains, blending teen culture, Haisla lore, nature spirits and human tenderness into a multi-layered story of loss and redemption.