The sentient archive : bodies, performance, and memory / edited by Bill Bissell and Linda Caruso Haviland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Bissell, Bill, editor.

Haviland, Linda Caruso, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Philosophy.

Dance.

Human body (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xvii, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2018]

Summary:

All modes of human inquiry, from the artistic to the scientific, are archived as body knowledge. 'The Sentient Archive' gathers together the work of scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts. These twenty-eight rich and challenging essays cross boundaries within and between disciplines, mediating the theoretical and the experiential to illustrate how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. In drawing connections between body and archive, the essayists consider how and why the moving body generates and stores information for recall, retrieval, or reenactment. The writers address issues of history, memory, and agency, but the knowing body, performed or reenacted, remains a focal point. Contributors include Nancy Goldner, Alain Platel, Catherine Stevens, Meg Stuart, Andre Lepecki, Ralph Lemon, and other notable scholars and artists.0.

Contents:

Foreword / Paula Marincola

Introduction : a body comparable / Bill Bissell and Linda Caruso Haviland

Considering the body as archive / Linda Caruso Haviland

I. Bodied knowing. Introduction / by Linda Caruso Haviland

Everyone has something to tell / Alain Platel

Stalking embodied knowledge

then what? / Tomie Hahn

The sensing and knowing body : choreographing action and feeling / Juhani Pallasmaa

Use me / Meg Stuart

A body-mind centering® approach to movement through embodiment / Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Pleasure / Ralph Lemon

Slow / Ralph Lemon

II. Memory, history, and retrieval. Introduction / by Linda Caruso Haviland

Memory has its way with me / Barbara Dilley

The body makes you remember / Ivo van Hove

Touching history / Ann Cooper Albright

My discovery of dance / Allegra Kent

We dance what we remember : memory in perceiving and performing contemporary dance / Catherine J. Stevens

The stories in our bodies / Emily Johnson

III. The body in the archive. Introduction / by Linda Caruso Haviland

& we should live and be well : five artist statements, 1995-2007 / David Gordon

The embodied performance of museum visiting : sacred temples or theaters of memory? / Laurajane Smith

Sideways glances : painting and dancing / Sarah Crowner

Leap before you look : honoring the libretto in Giselle and Apollo / Nancy Goldner

Body as signifier / Patricia Hoffbauer

IV. Performing the archive. Introduction / by Linda Caruso Haviland

Untitled / Bebe Miller

My body, the archive / Deborah Hay

Choreographing somatic memories and spatial residues / Jayachandran Palazhy

Tremulous histories / Jenn Joy

Exit/exist

embodiment / Gregory Maqoma

V. Afterlives and transformations. Introduction / by Linda Caruso Haviland

Pavilion of secrets / Marcia B. Siegel

Archiving Indeterminate systems of ecosystems and improvisational dance strategies / Jennifer Monson

Them : recombinant aesthetics of restaging experimental performance / Thomas F. DeFrantz

New bodies, new architecture / Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim

Choreographic angelology / André Lepecki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Sentient archive.

ISBN:

9780819577740

081957774X

9780819577757

0819577758

OCLC:

1007507347