Unworking choreography : the notion of the work in dance / Frederic Pouillaude ; translated by Anna Pakes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pouillaude, Frédéric, 1978- author.

Contributor:

Pakes, Anna, translator.

Series:

Oxford studies in dance theory.

Oxford Studies in Dance Theory

Standardized Title:

Désœuvrement chorégraphique. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Dance--Aesthetics.

Dance.

Dance--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

'Unworking Choreography' considers how philosophy traditionally understands dance as space rather than art in order to postulate a new theory of unworking that is grounded in both historical and contemporary dance.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Preface to the English edition

Translator's Preface

Introduction and acknowledgements

PART 1: PHILOSOPHY OF DANCE AND THE ABSENTING OF WORKS

Chapter 1: On Transcendental Absenting

Chapter 2: A Time with No Outside (Valéry and Jouissance)

Chapter 3: A Space with No Place (Straus and Ecstasy)

Chapter 4: The Absence of the Work: Presence, Expenditure, Auto-affection

PART 2: THE WORK (1): THE STAGE AND SIGNIFICATION

Chapter 1: Mallarmé: Deciphering the Stage

Chapter 2: Spectacle, Ritual, Divertissement (Genesis and Structure of the

Choreographic Stage, I)

Chapter 3: Presence, Ideality, Signification (Genesis and Structure of the

Choreographic Stage, II)

Chapter 4: Artaud: Presence and Ritual

PART 3: THE WORK (2): IMMANENCE AND IDEALITY

Chapter 1: Writing That Says Nothing

Chapter 2: Identity: Two Regimes

Chapter 3: Oral Identities: Passing Dance on, Making Versions

Chapter 4: The Supporting Trace: Images and Scores

PART 4: A TECHNIQUE WITH NO OBJECT

Chapter 1: What is a Dance Technique?

Chapter 2: Technique or Language: An Analogical Impasse

Chapter 3: Lack of Tools as Loss of Memory

Chapter 4: Intending the Unintentional, Repeating the Unrepeatable

Conclusion (1): Reflect and Repeat

Section 1: Stage and Contemporaneity

Section 2: The Reflexive Labour of Performance

Section 3: The Memorial Labour of the Work

Conclusion (2): Gesture and Trace

Appendix of illustrations

Bibliography and References.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-064997-6

0-19-064996-8

0-19-931466-7