Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories : Trans-Historical Perspectives Beyond Dance and Human Bodies in Motion / Anna Leon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leon, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choreography.

Culture.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld, Germany : transcript Verlag, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Leon Anna : Anna Leon is a dance historian working in and through research, curatorial theory projects, teaching and dance/performance dramaturgy. Currently, she is theory curator at Tanzquartier Wien and post-doctoral research fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she researches peripheralised dance modernities through a focus on ballet in early 20th-century Greece. Her curatorial work includes the ongoing projects Radio (non-)conference with Netta Weiser and Choreography+ with Johanna Hilari. She has taught at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Bern, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and SEAD. Her first book, Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories, was published in 2022.

Summary:

From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the first to consider expanded choreography from a trans-historical perspective. Through case studies on different periods of European dance history - ranging from Renaissance dance to William Forsythe's choreographic objects and from Baroque court ballets to digital choreographies - it traces a journey of choreography as a practice transcending its sole association with dancing, moving, human bodies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Notes on translation

Summary

Introduction

Part 1: Before choreography, expansion

Introduction to Part 1

Chapter 1: Monsieur de Saint-Hubert's expanded choreographic poietics

Chapter 2: Choreo-graphy or the incorporeal inscription of choreography

Chapter 3: Stillness in nature's dance: expanded choreographies of the Italian Renaissance

Conclusion to Part 1

Part 2: Expanded choreographies of the now

Introduction to Part 2

Chapter 4: Programming (as) choreography: a series of kinect videos by Mathilde Chénin

Chapter 5: A choreography of the in-between: Olga Mesa's Solo a ciegas (con lágrimas azules)

Chapter 6: Being (in) a choreographic object: William Forsythe's artificial nature installation in Groningen

Conclusion to Part 2

Part 3: Expanded modernities

Introduction to Part 3

Chapter 7: The multiple choreographies of the Ballets Suédois' Relâche

Chapter 8: Looking at a world in movement: Rudolf Laban's work in industry

Chapter 9: Creation, imagination, paradise: lettrism's excursions into choreography

Conclusion to Part 3

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 30, 2022).

ISBN:

3-8394-6105-7

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access