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

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 d...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2014]
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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.
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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