Blue sky body : thresholds for embodied research / Ben Spatz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spatz, Ben, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Technique.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 305 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Blue Sky Body: Thresholds for Embodied Research is the follow-up to Ben Spatz's 2015 book What a Body Can Do, charting a course through more than twenty years of embodied, artistic, and scholarly research. Emerging from the confluence of theory and practice, this book combines full-length critical essays with a kaleidoscopic selection of fragments from journal entries, performance texts, and other unpublished materials to offer a series of entry points organized by seven keywords: city, song, movement, theater, sex, document, politics. Brimming with thoughtful and sometimes provocative takes on embodiment, technology, decoloniality, the university, and the politics of knowledge, the work shared here models the integration of artistic and embodied research with critical thought, opening new avenues for transformative action and experimentation. Invaluable to scholars and practitioners working through and beyond performance, Blue Sky Body is both an unconventional introduction to embodied research and a methodological intervention at the edges of contemporary theory"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 City: Fragments p. 57

Sky Gold (1995) p. 57

The Electronic Heart (2001) p. 58

Vermilion's Text (2001-2003) p. 64

Another City (2009) p. 68

Embodiment as First Affordance (2017) p. 70

2 Song: Fragments p. 87

Sweat (2003) p. 87

Vessels (2008) p. 89

Burning Up (2009) p. 90

Topology of Song (2015) p. 94

Colors Like Knives (2017) p. 97

3 Movement: Fragments p. 123

First Showing (2000) p. 123

The Door is Open (2004) p. 125

Letters to an Empty Room (2008) p. 127

Irregular Rhythms (2014) p. 129

Choreography as Research (2017) p. 132

4 Theater: Fragments p. 150

Wild Spirit (1999) p. 150

Acts Without Organs (2008) p. 152

Beckett's Non-Theater (2011) p. 155

PLAYWAR (2012) p. 158

A Thousand Tiny Viewpoints (2020) p. 161

5 Sex: Fragments p. 174

The desert (2003) p. 174

Pornography and Trauma (2009) p. 179

Is Grotowski Queer? (2013) p. 180

Soft hutch (2018) p. 184

This Extraordinary Power (2010) p. 187

6 Document: Fragments p. 211

Citing Musicality (2013) p. 211

Ethics of the Scribble (2016) p. 213

What Do We Document? (2017) p. 215

Criteria for Assessment (2017) p. 217

The Video Way of Thinking (2018) p. 221

7 Politics: Fragments p. 233

Neverland (2002) p. 233

A Charismatic Moment (2009) p. 237

Touching Landscape (2016) p. 239

Duration and Kinship (2018) p. 242

Notes for Decolonizing Embodiment (2019) p. 245

Appendix: Interviews p. 267

Interview: Iben Nagel Rasmussen (2018) p. 267

Interview: Tim Ingold (2019) p. 275

Performance Text: Rite, of the Butcher (2013) p. 286.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Spatz, Ben, Blue sky body

ISBN:

9781138608542

1138608548

9781138608559

1138608556

OCLC:

1114509311