Touching and being touched : kinesthesia and empathy in dance and movement / edited by Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerko Egert, Sabine Zubarik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brandstetter, Gabriele, editor.

Egert, Gerko.

Zubarik, Sabine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Physiological aspects.

Dance.

Muscular sense.

Touch--Physiological aspects.

Touch.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Touch is a fundamental element of dance. The (time) forms and contact zones of touch are means of expression both of self-reflexivity and the interaction of the dancers. Liberties and limits, creative possibilities and taboos of touch convey insights into the 'aisthesis' of the different forms of dance: into their dynamics and communicative structure, as well as into the production and regulation of affects. Touching and Being Touched assembles seventeen interdisciplinary papers focusing on the question of how forms and practices of touch are connected with the evocation of feelings. Are these feelings evoked in different ways in tango, Contact improvisation, European and Japanese contemporary dance? The contributors to this volume (dance, literature, and film scholars as well as philosophers and neuroscientists) provide in-depth discussions of the modes of transfer between touch and being touched. Drawing on the assumptions of various theories of body, emotion, and senses, how can we interpret the processes of tactile touch and of being touched emotionally? Is there a specific spectrum of emotions activated during these processes (within both the spectator and the dancer)? How can the relationship of movement, touch, and emotion be analyzed in relation to kinesthesia and empathy?

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Touching and Being Touched

I. Touch

Rühren, Berühren, Aufruhr / Nancy, Jean-Luc

Figure, Plasticity, Affect / Largier, Niklaus

Just Like That / Manning, Erin / Massumi, Brian

Movements of Touch in MAYBE FOREVER / Egert, Gerko

Cold Burn (Teion Yakedo) / Mezur, Katherine

The Fault Lines of Touching / Kruschkova, Krassimira

II. Kinesthesia

On 'Inner Touch' and the Moving Body / Paterson, Mark

Choreographies With and Without a Choreographer / Landweer, Hilge

"Listening" / Brandstetter, Gabriele

Do You Feel the Same Way Too? / Jola, Corinne

Empathy, Contagion and Affect / Reynolds, Dee

III. Empathy

Affective Modulations in Politics, Theory and Art / Angerer, Marie-Luise

Is the Movement of the Filmic Image a Sign of Vitality? / Curtis, Robin

Feeling In and Out / Albright, Ann Cooper

"Touch Me If You Can" / Zubarik, Sabine

Lost and Found in Interpretation / Chatzimasoura, Kornilia

Dancing Tango / Abadi, Sonia

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110292046

3110292041

OCLC:

862938399