Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories

Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories
Author: Anna Leon
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2022-07-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3839461057

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.

Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories

Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories
Author: Anna Leon
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2022-07-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3732861058

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.

Writing Choreography

Writing Choreography
Author: Leena Rouhiainen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2024-03-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1003856047

A new contribution to studies in choreography, Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance focuses upon language and writing-based approaches to choreographing from the perspectives of artists and researchers active in the Nordic and Oceanic contexts. Through the contributions of 15 dance–artists, choreographers, dramaturges, writers, interdisciplinary artists and artist–researchers, the volume highlights diverse textual choreographic processes and outcomes arguing for their relevance to present-day practices of expanded choreography. The anthology introduces some Western trends related to utilizing writing, text and language in choreographic processes. In its focus on art-making processes, it likewise offers insight into how performance can be transcribed into writing, how practices of writing choreograph and how choreography can be a process of writing with. Readers, such as dancers, choreographers, students in higher education of these fields as well as researchers in choreography, gain understanding about different experimental forms of writing forwarded by diverse choreographers and how writing is the motional organisation of images, signs, words and texts. The volume presents a new strand in expanded choreography and acts as inspiration for its continued evolution that engenders new adaptations between language, writing and choreography. Ideal for students, scholars and researchers of choreography and dance studies.

TRANSPOSITIONES 2022 Vol. 1, Issue 2: Intraconnectedness and World-making: Technologies, Bodies, Matters

TRANSPOSITIONES 2022 Vol. 1, Issue 2: Intraconnectedness and World-making: Technologies, Bodies, Matters
Author: Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec
Publisher: V&R unipress
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2022-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3737014701

In his 1978 book Nelson Goodman coined the term “worldmaking.” The new-materialistic approach to the potential for meaning of extra-human materiality and its multidimensional entanglements and the intraconnectedness shifts the concept of world-making into new perspectives of interpretation. In the categories of Karen Barad’s “agential realism,” it applies to practices of knowledge production and to a diffractive (re)configuration of the world’s matter and its meaning. “World-making” gains a further specific expression in Donna Haraway’s concept of “worlding” which shows the intraactive entanglement of matter, substance, meaning, storytelling and thinking on the fundamental level of the polysemic linguistic tissue itself.

Choreographies

Choreographies
Author: Jacky Lansley
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Choreography
ISBN: 9781783207664

Choreographer Jacky Lansley has been practicing and performing for more than four decades. In Choreographies, she offers unique insight into the processes behind independent choreography and paints a vivid portrait of a rigorous practice that combines dance, performance art, visuals, and a close attention to space and site. Choreographies is both autobiography and archive--documenting production through rehearsal and performance photographs, illustrations, scores, process notes, reviews, audience feedback, and interviews with both dancers and choreographers. Covering the author's practice from 1975 to 2017, the book delves into an important period of change in contemporary British dance--exploring British New Dance, postmodern dance, and experimental dance outside of a canonical US context. A critically engaged reflection that focuses on artistic process over finished product, Choreographies is a much-needed resource in the fields of dance and choreographic art making.

Contemporary Choreography

Contemporary Choreography
Author: Jo Butterworth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2017-12-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317191579

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Contemporary Choreography presents a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and innovative challenges to traditional understandings of dance making. Contributions from a global range of practitioners and researchers address a spectrum of concerns in the field, organized into seven broad domains: Conceptual and philosophical concerns Processes of making Dance dramaturgy: structures, relationships, contexts Choreographic environments Cultural and intercultural contexts Challenging aesthetics Choreographic relationships with technology. Including 23 new chapters and 10 updated ones, Contemporary Choreography captures the essence and progress of choreography in the twenty-first century, supporting and encouraging rigorous thinking and research for future generations of dance practitioners and scholars.

Butting Out

Butting Out
Author: Ananya Chatterjea
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004-12-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780819567338

First major study of two important contemporary female dancers.

Watching the Weeds Grow

Watching the Weeds Grow
Author: Ernie Maddron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781881636892

Set in the Vietnam era the story follows Jordan Gentry a disabled Vietnam vet trying to get his life back together and Susan Kendal Kincaid, a victim of assault and abuse and the era's drug influence. Both Jordan and Susan find their way while "watching the weeds grow."

Exhausting Dance

Exhausting Dance
Author: Andre Lepecki
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2006-07-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134230893

The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US. Through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, this new generation of choreographers challenge our understanding of dance by exhausting the concept of movement. Their work demands to be read as performed extensions of the radical politics implied in performance art, in post-structuralist and critical theory, in post-colonial theory, and in critical race studies. In this far-ranging and exceptional study, Andre Lepecki brilliantly analyzes the work of the choreographers: * Jerome Bel (France) * Juan Dominguez (Spain) * Trisha Brown (US) * La Ribot (Spain) * Xavier Le Roy (France-Germany) * Vera Mantero (Portugal) and visual and performance artists: * Bruce Nauman (US) * William Pope.L (US). This book offers a significant and radical revision of the way we think about dance, arguing for the necessity of a renewed engagement between dance studies and experimental artistic and philosophical practices.