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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Circuits and Circulation
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Front Matter
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Affectivities
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Sites of Representation
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Keywords
- contemporary dance
- international dance
- transnational dance
- Gilles Deleuze
- Michel Foucault
- dance aesthetics
- kinaesthetics in dance
- movement studies
- physicality in performance
- multicultural choreography
- transculturalist choreography
- embodied interaction
- dance politics
- transcending boundaries
- national identity
- dance diplomacy
- site-specific performance
- choreography of repetition
- cultural capitalism
- audience-performer relationship
- arts
- choreography
- performing arts
About this book
This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our emotions and prejudices, and our sense of public and private space. In so doing, they offer a multi-layered response to ideas of affect and emotion, culture and politics, and ultimately, the place of dance and art itself within society.
The chapters in this collection arise from a number of different political and historical contexts. By teasing out their detail and situating dance within them, art is given a political charge. That charge is informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Rancière and Luce Irigaray as well as their forebears such as Spinoza, Plato and Freud. Taken together, Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion puts thought into motion, without forgetting its origins in the social world.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas F. DeFrantz is Professor and Chair of African and African American Studies at Duke University, USA, and director of SLIPPAGE: Performance, Culture, Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. He co-convened the Choreography and Corporeality working group (IFTR) from 2005-2013. Other books: Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance, Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture, and Black Performance Theory.
Philipa Rothfield is an honorary staff member in philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. She has an intermittent dance practice, having worked with Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Alice Cummins (Footfall Ensemble). She is a co-convener of the Choreography and Corporeality working group (IFTR). She is dance reviewer for RealTime Magazine, Momm Magazine, Korea and head of the Editorial Board for the Dancehouse Diary. She is also Creative Advisor for Dancehouse, Melbourne.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Choreography and Corporeality
Book Subtitle: Relay in Motion
Editors: Thomas F. DeFrantz, Philipa Rothfield
Series Title: New World Choreographies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54653-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54652-4Published: 27 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71409-4Published: 21 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54653-1Published: 14 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-9266
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9274
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 310
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Performing Arts