Performative body spaces : corporeal topographies in literature, theatre, dance, and the visual arts / / edited by Markus Hallensleben.

• Author: Body Spaces, Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts
• TeilnehmendeR: Hallensleben, Markus.; Body Spaces, Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts (2008 : Vancouver)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Notes: Papers from the international and interdisciplinary workshop Body Spaces: Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts, at the University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada, on March 14-16, 2008.

The human body as cultural object always has and is a performing subject, which binds the political with the theatrical, shows the construction of ethnicity and technology, unveils private and public spaces, transgresses race and gender, and finally becomes a medium that overcomes the borders of art...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / Editors Performative Body Spaces
• Introduction: Performative Body Spaces / Markus Hallensleben
• Metaphors of Dancing and the Human Body in Nazi Concentration Camps / Bożena Karwowska
• From Dance under the Swastika to Movement Education: A Study of Embodied Culture / Patricia Vertinsky
• Political Body Spaces in the Performances of William Forsythe / Gabriele Brandstetter
• Reading Skin Signs: Decoding Skin as the Fluid Boundary between Self and Other in Yoko Tawada / Jeremy Redlich
• The Body in Space: Layers of Gender in Japanese Classical Dance / Colleen Lanki
• Counter-Narrativity and Corporeality in Kishida Rio’s Ito Jigoku / Yasuko Ikeuchi
• The Absence of Voices in the Theatre Space: Ku Nauka’s Production of Medea / Eiichiro Hirata
• Staging Culture – Staging Nature: Polynesian Performance as Nature and Nature as Performance in Hawaii / Sabine Wilke
• Moving through Fashion in Nineteenth-Century France / Sima Godfrey
• Reading Bodies: Female Secrecy and Sexuality in the Works of Renoir and Degas / Kathryn Brown
• Corporeal Topographies of the Image Zone: From Oskar Kokoschka’s Murder of Metaphor to Georges Bataille’s acéphale / Rainer Rumold
• Somatechnics and Makeover Reality TV: The Symbiotic Viewer/Participant Relationship / Beth Pentney
• The Body as Object: From Body Image to Meta-Body / Robert Pritchard
• Touched: Organization, Control and Emergence in Choreographed Performance Systems / Henry Daniel
• List of Contributors / Editors Performative Body Spaces
• Index / Editors Performative Body Spaces.