Choreography and corporeality : relay in motion / Thomas F. DeFrantz, Philipa Rothfield, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeFrantz, Thomas, editor.

Rothfield, Philipa, editor.

Series:

New world choreographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choreography.

Dance.

Physical Description:

310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

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, Rancìere 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.

Contents:

Part I: Rethinking choreography

Part II: Circuits and circulation

Part III: Affectivities

Part IV: Sites of representation.

ISBN:

1137546522

9781137546524

OCLC:

934194338