Touching and Being Touched : : Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance and Movement / / ed. by Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerko Egert, Sabine Zubarik.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Abadi, Sonia,; Albright, Ann Cooper,; Angerer, Marie-Luise,; Brandstetter, Gabriele,; Chatzimasoura, Kornilia,; Curtis, Robin,; Egert, Gerko,; Jola, Corinne,; Kruschkova, Krassimira,; Landweer, Hilge,; Largier, Niklaus,; Manning, Erin,; Massumi, Brian,; Mezur, Katherine,; Nancy, Jean-Luc,; Paterson, Mark,; Reynolds, Dee,; Zubarik, Sabine,
• HerausgeberIn: Brandstetter, Gabriele,; Egert, Gerko,; Zubarik, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 p.)

Touch is a fundamental element of dance. The (time) forms and contact zones of touch are means of expression both of self-reflexivity and the interaction of the dancers. Liberties and limits, creative possibilities and taboos of touch convey insights into the ‘aisthesis’ of the different forms of da...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Touching and Being Touched
• I. Touch
• Rühren, Berühren, Aufruhr
• Figure, Plasticity, Affect
• Just Like That
• Movements of Touch in MAYBE FOREVER
• Cold Burn (Teion Yakedo)
• The Fault Lines of Touching
• II. Kinesthesia
• On ‘Inner Touch’ and the Moving Body
• Choreographies With and Without a Choreographer
• “Listening”
• Do You Feel the Same Way Too?
• Empathy, Contagion and Affect
• III. Empathy
• Affective Modulations in Politics, Theory and Art
• Is the Movement of the Filmic Image a Sign of Vitality?
• Feeling In and Out
• “Touch Me If You Can”
• Lost and Found in Interpretation
• Dancing Tango
• Notes on Contributors