Emerging bodies : : the performance of worldmaking in dance and choreography / / edited by Gabriele Klein and Sandra Noeth.

• Funder: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection
• TeilnehmendeR: Klein, Gabriele,; Noeth, Sandra,
• Author: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2011; 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: TanzScripte ; Bd. 21.; Critical dance studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The concept of »worldmaking« is based on the idea that ›the world‹ is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing ›dance worlds‹: through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form and dance material. The essays in this volume critically reflect the predominant topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral - an embodiment of the Other in modernity. Moreover, they demonstrate that there is more than just one universal »world of dance«, but rather a multitude of interrelated dance worlds with more emerging every day.

»Die beiden Herausgeberinnen bieten [...] einen umfassenden Einblick in praktische Positionen und theoretische Diskurse der internationalen Tanz- und Performancekunst.« Daniela Pillgrab, [rezens.tfm], 21.06.2012 »Auf wissenschaftlich anspruchsvollem Niveau wird [mit diesem Buch] die Annahme begründet, dass Tanz seine Wirksamkeit nicht in der Repräsentation existierender Strukturen und Systeme entfaltet, sondern gerade durch das Anbieten von Alternativen - von Utopien, entwickelt mit der Hilfe des Körpers und durch die Organisation der Bewegung.« Up to Dance, 2 (2012) Reviewed in: http://danse.revues.org, 17.12.2014, Valeria De Luca

Table of Contents

1 Contents 5 Introduction 7 Dancing Politics: Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography 17 Between Intervention and Utopia: Dance Politics 29 Dance and Work: The Aesthetic and Political Potential of Dance 47 The Collective That Isn't One 61 Jérôme Bel and Myself: Gender and Intercultural Collaboration 73 Transnationalism and Contemporary African Dance: Faustin Linyekula 83 Flee(t)ing Dances! Initiatives for the Preservation and Communication of Intangible World Heritage in Museums 93 The Bluff of Contemporary Dance 107 Transcription - Materiality - Signature. Dancing and Writing between Resistance and Excess 119 Autobiography and the Coulisses: Narrator, Dancer, Spectator 137 Dance Images. Dance Films as an Example of the Representation and Production of Movement 149 Against the Beat. Music, Dance and the Image in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up 163 Gesture Capture: Paradigms in Interactive Music/ Dance Systems 183 Tables of Weights and Measures: Architecture and the Synchronous Objects Project 195 Synchronous Objects, Choreographic Objects, and the Translation of Dancing Ideas 207 Communicating, Distilling, Catalyzing. On the Creation of Dance Congress Worlds 225 Situational Worlds. Complicity as a Model of Collaboration 235 Protocols of Encounter: On Dance Dramaturgy 247 Notes on Contributors 257 264