Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2011

Emerging Bodies

The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography

Edited by: Gabriele Klein and Sandra Noeth
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection

Volume 21 in the series TanzScripte

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839415962

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About this book

The concept of »worldmaking« is based on the idea that ›the world‹ is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing ›dance worlds‹: through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form and dance material.
The essays in this volume critically reflect the predominant topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral - an embodiment of the Other in modernity. Moreover, they demonstrate that there is more than just one universal »world of dance«, but rather a multitude of interrelated dance worlds with more emerging every day.

Author / Editor information

Gabriele Klein (Dr. rer. soc.) has been a full professor of sociology with a focus on human movement science, dance and performance studies at Universität Hamburg since 2002. Since 2022 she has also been professor of ballet and dance (Hans-van-Manen Chair) at the University of Amsterdam. She is PI of the Cluster of Excellence »Understanding Written Artefacts« at Universität Hamburg. From 2022 to 2023, she was a fellow at the research center »global dis:connect«.
Sandra Noeth is a professor at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin and an international curator. Her work focuses on ethical and political perspectives in body-based artistic practice and theory.

Reviews

»Die beiden Herausgeberinnen bieten [...] einen umfassenden Einblick in praktische Positionen und theoretische Diskurse der internationalen Tanz- und Performancekunst.«
Daniela Pillgrab, [rezens.tfm], 21.06.2012

»Auf wissenschaftlich anspruchsvollem Niveau wird [mit diesem Buch] die Annahme begründet, dass Tanz seine Wirksamkeit nicht in der Repräsentation existierender Strukturen und Systeme entfaltet, sondern gerade durch das Anbieten von Alternativen - von Utopien, entwickelt mit der Hilfe des Körpers und durch die Organisation der Bewegung.«
Up to Dance, 2 (2012)

Reviewed in:

http://danse.revues.org, 17.12.2014, Valeria De Luca

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction Gabriele Klein and Sandra Noeth Open Access Download PDF	7
SOCIAL REALMS
Dancing Politics: Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography Gabriele Klein Open Access Download PDF	17
Between Intervention and Utopia: Dance Politics Randy Martin Open Access Download PDF	29
Dance and Work: The Aesthetic and Political Potential of Dance Bojana Kunst Open Access Download PDF	47
The Collective That Isn’t One LIGNA in conversation with SANDRA NOETH Sandra Noeth Open Access Download PDF	61
HYBRID SPHERES
Jérôme Bel and Myself: Gender and Intercultural Collaboration Susan Leigh Foster Open Access Download PDF	73
Transnationalism and Contemporary African Dance: Faustin Linyekula Sabine Sörgel Open Access Download PDF	83
Flee(t)ing Dances! Initiatives for the Preservation and Communication of Intangible World Heritage in Museums Anette Rein Open Access Download PDF	93
The Bluff of Contemporary Dance MONIKA GINTERSDORFER in conversation with GABRIELE KLEIN Monika Gintersdorfer and Gabriele Klein Open Access Download PDF	107
ART WORLDS
Transcription – Materiality – Signature. Dancing and Writing between Resistance and Excess Gabriele Brandstetter Open Access Download PDF	119
Autobiography and the Coulisses: Narrator, Dancer, Spectator Julie Townsend Open Access Download PDF	137
Dance Images. Dance Films as an Example of the Representation and Production of Movement Knut Hickethier Open Access Download PDF	149
Against the Beat. Music, Dance and the Image in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up Michael Diers Open Access Download PDF	163
DIGITAL WORLDS – PROCESSING BODIES
Gesture Capture: Paradigms in Interactive Music/ Dance Systems Frédéric Bevilacqua, Norbert Schnell and Sarah Fdili Alaoui Open Access Download PDF	183
Tables of Weights and Measures: Architecture and the Synchronous Objects Project Stephen Turk Open Access Download PDF	195
Synchronous Objects, Choreographic Objects, and the Translation of Dancing Ideas Norah Zuniga Shaw Open Access Download PDF	207
WORKING PRINCIPLES
Communicating, Distilling, Catalyzing. On the Creation of Dance Congress Worlds Sabine Gehm and Katharina Von Wilcke Open Access Download PDF	225
Situational Worlds. Complicity as a Model of Collaboration Gesa Ziemer Open Access Download PDF	235
Protocols of Encounter: On Dance Dramaturgy Sandra Noeth Open Access Download PDF	247
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	257
Backmatter Open Access Download PDF	264

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: Choreography; Media; Psychoanalysis; Gender; Interculturalitity; Imagination; Body; Arts; Cultural Theory; Theatre Studies

eBook

Published: April 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839415962