Dance and Performance Studies. Perspectives in Motion : : Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music / / ed. by Brian Diettrich, Kendra Stepputat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Anis Md Nor, Mohd,; Bakka, Egil,; Cruz Banks, Ojeya,; Diettrich, Brian,; Freeman Moulin, Jane,; Gillespie, Kirsty,; Ivancich Dunin, Elsie,; Kaeppler, Adrienne L.,; Karongo Hundleby, Irene,; Loutzaki, Irene,; Marinaccio, Jess,; Niles, Don,; Stepputat, Kendra,; Szego, Kati,; Trimillos, Ricardo D.,; Tuku‘aho, Nanasipau‘u,; Van Zile, Judy,
• HerausgeberIn: Diettrich, Brian,; Stepputat, Kendra,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Dance and Performance Studies ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, this edited collection offers new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music -- Part I. Gaining Insights through Dance Visualizations -- 1. Kinetic Songscapes: Intersensorial Listening to Hula Ku‘i Songs -- 2. Using Motion Capture to Access Culturally Embedded and Embodied Movement Knowledge: A Case Study in Tango Argentino -- 3. Transcription and Description: Tasks for Dance Research -- 4. Moving into Someone Else’s Research Project: Issues in Collaborative Research -- Part II. Reconsidering Movement Structures -- 5. The Dancer’s Voice: Th e Dancing Body as Sound Made Visible -- 6. From Tonga to Malaysia: Utilizing Adrienne Kaeppler’s Analysis of Dance Structure to Understand Igal of the Sama-Bajau in East Malaysia -- 7. Courting as Structured Movement in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea -- Part III. Music and Dance as Agency in Power Struggles -- 8. Disturbing Bodies: Danced Resistance and Imperial Corporeality in Colonial Micronesia -- 9. Greek Politicians’ Dancing: Theatrical Representations of Political Power -- 10. Lalåi: Somatic Decolonization and Worldview-Making through Chant on the Pacifi c Island of Guåhan -- Part IV. Significance of the Tangible -- 11. Intangible Dancing as Tangible Museum Exhibits -- 12. Creativity and Ceremony in the Repatriation of King Ng:tja -- 13. The Weave Within: Being, Seeing and Sensing in Barasili – Solomon Islands -- Part V. Perspectives from Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Interview with Adrienne L. Kaeppler. A Conversation with the Kupuna -- Publications by Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Index