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Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance

Author : Ananya Chatterjea
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030439127
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance written by Ananya Chatterjea and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core. Differently, the book reimagines contemporary dance along a “South-South” axis, as a poly-centric, justice-oriented, aesthetic-temporal category, with intersectional understandings of difference as a central organizing principle. Placing alterity and heat, generated via multiple pathways, at its center, it foregrounds the work of South-South artists, who push against constructions of “tradition” and white-centered aesthetic imperatives, to reinvent their choreographic toolkit and respond to urgent questions of their times. In recasting the grounds for a different “global stage,” the argument widens its scope to indicate how dance-making both indexes current contextual inequities and broader relations of social, economic, political, and cultural power, and inaugurates future dimensions of justice. Winner of the 2022 Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research

Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance

Author : Annelies Van Assche
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030406950
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance by : Annelies Van Assche

Download or read book Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance written by Annelies Van Assche and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective. It provides a dance scholarly and sociological interpretation of its mechanisms by coupling qualitative data (interview material, observations, logbooks, and dance performances) to theoretical insights. The book uncovers the sometimes contradicting mechanisms related to the precarious project-oriented labor and art market that determine the working and living conditions of contemporary dance artists in Europe’s dance capitals Brussels and Berlin. In addition, it examines how these working and living conditions affect the work process and outcome. From a sociological perspective, the book engages with the relevant contemporary social issue of precarity and this within the much-at-risk professional group of contemporary dance artists. In this regard, the research brings novelty within the subject area, particularly by employing a unique methodological approach. Although the research is initially set up in a specific geographical context and within a specific research population, the book offers insights into issues that affect our neoliberal society at large. The research findings show potential to make a relevant contribution with regards to precarity within dance studies and performance studies, but also labor studies and cultural sociology.

Contemporary Dance in Cuba

Author : Suki John
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786449012
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Dance in Cuba written by Suki John and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lens of dance can provide a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban experience. Cuban contemporary dance, or tecnica cubana as it is known throughout Latin America, is a highly evolved hybrid of ballet, North American modern dance, Afro-Cuban tradition, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. Unlike most dance forms, tecnica was created intentionally with government backing. For Cuba, a dancing country, it was natural--and highly effective--for the Revolutionary regime to link national image with the visceral power of dance. Written by a dancer who traveled and worked in Cuba from the 1970s to the present, this book provides an inside look at daily life in Cuba. From watching the great Alicia Alonso, to describing the economic trials of the 1990s "Special Period," the author uses history, humor, personal experience, rich description and extensive interviews to reveal contemporary life and dance in Cuba.

Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer

Author : J. Roche
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349491933
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer written by J. Roche and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspectives, drawn from interviews, current writing and evocative accounts from inside the choreographic process, illuminating the myriad ways that dancers contribute to the production of dance culture.

Perspectives on Contemporary Dance History

Author : Thomas K. Hagood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604978483
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Dance History written by Thomas K. Hagood and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Impulse was recognized as the platform for dance scholarship during the years of its publication, following its cessation in 1970, only a handful of libraries and collections retained a full complement of its issues. Over time, many upcoming dance scholars were unaware of its rich history and seminal contributions to the field. In 2008 a project was initiated to preserve Impulse as a digital collection and bring together a cohort of dance scholars to analyze each issue from todays point of view. Their collected works are presented in this text. There is no comparable study or project designed to preserve and facilitate access to original source materials in dance at this time. This book stands alone as a compendium of critical analyses of the full roster of a publication dedicated to dance. As eminent authors of the time were invited to contribute to issues of Impulse, contemporary dance scholars were invited to contribute to this book that examines Impulse from todays point of view. This book revisits the journals breadth of commentary, scope of authorship, and provocative yet engaging discourses.

Choreographing Problems

Author : Bojana Cvejic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137437391
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Choreographing Problems written by Bojana Cvejic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers. A discussion of key issues in contemporary performance from the viewpoint of Deleuze, Spinoza and Bergson is accompanied by intricate analyses of seven groundbreaking dance performances.

Moving Otherwise

Author : Victoria Fortuna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190627018
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Moving Otherwise written by Victoria Fortuna and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving Otherwise examines how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina enacted politics within climates of political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. From the repression of military dictatorships to the precarity of economic crises, contemporary dancers and audiences consistently responded to and reimagined the everyday choreographies that have accompanied Argentina's volatile political history. The titular concept, "moving otherwise" names how both concert dance and its off-stage practice and consumption offer alternatives to and modes to critique the patterns of movement and bodily comportment that shape everyday life in contexts marked by violence. Drawing on archival research based in institutional and private collections, over fifty interviews with dancers and choreographers, and the author's embodied experiences as a collaborator and performer with active groups, the book analyzes how a wide range of practices moved otherwise, including concert works, community dance initiatives, and the everyday labor that animates dance. It demonstrates how these diverse practices represent, resist, and remember violence and engender new forms of social mobilization on and off the theatrical stage. As the first book length critical study of Argentine contemporary dance, it introduces a breadth of choreographers to an English speaking audience, including Ana Kamien, Susana Zimmermann, Estela Maris, Alejandro Cervera, Renate Schottelius, Susana Tambutti, Silvia Hodgers, and Silvia Vladimivsky. It also considers previously undocumented aspects of Argentine dance history, including crossings between contemporary dancers and 1970s leftist political militancy, Argentine dance labor movements, political protest, and the prominence of tango themes in contemporary dance works that address the memory of political violence. Contemporary dance, the book demonstrates, has a rich and diverse history of political engagement in Argentina.

Choreographing Difference

Author : Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819569917
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Choreographing Difference written by Ann Cooper Albright and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity — a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cultural representation becomes embedded in the body. In arguing for the intelligence of bodies, Choreographing Difference is itself a testimonial, giving voice to some important political, moral, and artistic questions of our time. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.

Meaning in Motion

Author : Jane Desmond
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822319429
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Meaning in Motion written by Jane Desmond and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On dance and culture

Contemporary African Dance Theatre

Author : Sabine Sörgel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030415015
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Dance Theatre written by Sabine Sörgel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to consider contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics in the context of phenomenology, whiteness, and the gaze. Rather than a discussion of African dance per se, the author challenges hegemonic perceptions of contemporary African dance theatre to interrogate the extent to which white supremacy and privilege weave through capitalist necropolitics and determine our perception of contemporary African dance theatre today. Multiple aesthetic strategies are discussed throughout the book to account for the affective experience of ‘un-suturing’ that touches white spectatorship and colonial guilt at their core. The critical analysis covers a broad range of dance choreography by artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Canada, Europe, and the US as they travel, create, and show their works internationally to global audiences to contest racial divides and white supremacist politics.

The Dancer's Voice

Author : Rumya Sree Putcha
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023767
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Dancer's Voice written by Rumya Sree Putcha and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Dancer’s Voice Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family’s heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women’s citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer’s voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation.

Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-Reflection in Contemporary Dance

Author : Shantel Ehrenberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303073403X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-Reflection in Contemporary Dance written by Shantel Ehrenberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses. Expanding on the concept of a ‘kinaesthetic mode of attention’ leads to discussion of some of the key values and practices which nurture and develop this mode in contemporary dance. Zooming in on entanglements with video self-images in dance practice provides further insights regarding kinaesthesia’s historicised polarisation with the visual. It thus provides opportunities to dwell on and reconsider reflections, opening up to a set of playful yet disruptive diffractions inherent in the process of becoming a contemporary dancer, particularly amongst an increasingly complex landscape of visual and theoretical technologies.

Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques

Author : Joshua Legg
Publisher : Dance Horizons
ISBN 13 : 9780871273253
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques written by Joshua Legg and published by Dance Horizons. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each unit contains core ideas, a series of journaling and discussion topics, improvisation experiments, biographical sketches of the choreographers, and a presentation of-class material. At the end of each chapter, questions and experiments offer basic ideas that you can use to further your understanding of the choreography presented. --

Moving Together

Author : Rudi Laermans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789078088523
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Moving Together written by Rudi Laermans and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving Together examines contemporary dance from both a theoretical and a practical perspective, with interactions between the two. The author analyses three important tendencies in contemporary dance: "pure" dance, dance theatre, and (self-) reflexive dance. He proposes a theoretical, conceptual framework, and through extensive dialogues with choreographers he investigates how artistic cooperation results in dance. "Clearly written, meticulously researched and theoretically enriching, Rudi Laermans' first-hand accounts of key performances by some of the most influential names that have defined contemporary choreography since the mid-1980s make us see how crucial the Flemish dance scene has been for the development of contemporary experimental dance-and therefore, how it has also been a strong influence in those discourses that inform the reception and perception of international dance today. Absolutely essential." --Andr Lepecki, Associate Professor in Performance Studies, New York University. Rudi Laermans is Professor of Social Theory at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and a regular guest teacher at P.A.R.T.S., the Brussels-based international school for contemporary dance headed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. As an academic, he has published widely in both national and international journals and books within the areas of social theory, cultural sociology and the sociology of the arts. Also active as a critic and essayist, he published numerous articles on contemporary dance and is one of the leading voices on, and partly also within, the Flemish dance field.

Looking at Contemporary Dance

Author : Marc Strauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871273543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Looking at Contemporary Dance written by Marc Strauss and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Organized chronologically by the decades in which innovators were born or dance organizations were founded, [this history] covers more than 110 choreographers, companies, institutions, and dancers from both modern dance and ballet, and from around the world. Readers can view clips of dances from over 220 Internet search addresses that illustrate the text. Videographies are provided at the end of each chapter for viewing complete dances and documentaries."--P. [4] of cover.

The Basic Neurocellular Patterns

Author : Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990833932
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Basic Neurocellular Patterns written by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetics of Contemporary Dance

Author : Laurence Louppe
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852731403
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Poetics of Contemporary Dance written by Laurence Louppe and published by Dance Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on the whole practical and theoretical heritage of modern dance and its pre-cursors and including discussion of works up to and including the 1980s, Louppe reviews the main 'tools' of contemporary dance creation and thought: the body, weight, space, time, flow, breath, style and composition. She also weaves through her analysis a vision of the broader historical and philosophical concerns and challenges specific to this art and its defining values. Rather than taking an objective, cognitive approach to her role as observer and critic, Louppe writes from an intimate place of attention to all of the contemporary dancer's resources and practices: from the 'pre-movement' when stylistic values are born invisibly in bodies, to the moment and location of performance and the encounter with a public."--Publisher.