Expanded choreographies - choreographic histories : : trans-historical perspectives beyond dance and human bodies in motion / / Anna Leon.

• VerfasserIn: Leon, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 pages) :; illustrations

From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the first to consider expanded choreography from a trans-historical perspective. Through case studies on different periods of European dance history - ranging from Renaissance dance to William Forsythe's choreographic objects and from Baroque court ballets to digital choreographies - it traces a journey of choreography as a practice transcending its sole association with dancing, moving, human bodies.

Table of Contents

List of Figures 11 -- Acknowledgments 15 -- Notes on translation 17 -- Summary 19 -- Introduction 21 Part 1: Before choreography, expansion Introductionto Part 1 39 --Chapter 1: Monsieur de Saint-Hubert's expanded choreographic poietics 43 -- Chapter 2: Choreo-graphy or the incorporeal inscription of choreography 65-- Chapter 3: Stillness in nature's dance: expanded choreographies of the Italian Renaissance 99 -- Conclusion to Part 1 123 -- Part 2: Expanded choreographies of the now -- Introduction to Part 2 129 -- Chapter 4: Programming (as) choreography: a series of kinect videos by Mathilde Chénin 135 -- Chapter 5: Achoreography of the in-between: Olga Mesa's Solo a ciegas (con lágrimas azules) 159 -- Chapter 6: Being (in) a choreographic object: William Forsythe's artificial nature --Installation in Groningen 187 -- Conclusion to Part 2 213 -- Part 3: Expanded modernities -- Introduction to Part 3 219 -- Chapter 7: The multiple choreographies of the Ballets Suédois' Relâche 227 -- Chapter 8: Looking at a world in movement: Rudolf Laban's work in industry 247 -- Chapter 9: Creation, imagination, paradise: lettrism's excursions into choreography 277 -- Conclusion to Part 3 307 -- Conclusion 311 -- Bibliography 323 -- Index 347.