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):

Dance--History--Juvenile literature.

Dance.

Dance--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Expanded Choreographies – Choreographic Histories

Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

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:

List of Figures 11

Acknowledgments 15

Notes on translation 17

Summary 19

Introduction 21 Part 1: Before choreography, expansion Introductionto Part 1 39

Chapter 1: Monsieur de Saint-Hubert's expanded choreographic poietics 43

Chapter 2: Choreo-graphy or the incorporeal inscription of choreography 65

Chapter 3: Stillness in nature's dance: expanded choreographies of the Italian Renaissance 99

Conclusion to Part 1 123

Part 2: Expanded choreographies of the now

Introduction to Part 2 129

Chapter 4: Programming (as) choreography: a series of kinect videos by Mathilde Chénin 135

Chapter 5: Achoreography of the in-between: Olga Mesa's Solo a ciegas (con lágrimas azules) 159

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

Installation in Groningen 187

Conclusion to Part 2 213

Part 3: Expanded modernities

Introduction to Part 3 219

Chapter 7: The multiple choreographies of the Ballets Suédois' Relâche 227

Chapter 8: Looking at a world in movement: Rudolf Laban's work in industry 247

Chapter 9: Creation, imagination, paradise: lettrism's excursions into choreography 277

Conclusion to Part 3 307

Conclusion 311

Bibliography 323

Index 347.

Notes:

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Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access