Energy and Forces as Aesthetic Interventions Politics of Bodily Scenarios Sabine Huschka, Barbara Gronau

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huschka, Sabine <p>Sabine Huschka, Universität der Künste Berlin, Deutschland</p>, Editor.

Gronau, Barbara <p>Barbara Gronau, Universität der Künste Berlin, Deutschland</p>, Editor.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Funder.

Series:

Theater (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Volume 123.

Theater

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transgressions.

Aesthetics.

Energy.

Performance.

Dance.

Theatre.

Body.

Theatre Studies.

Local Subjects:

Transgressions.

Aesthetics.

Energy.

Performance.

Dance.

Theatre.

Body.

Theatre Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Huschka/Gronau (eds.), Energy and Forces as Aesthetic Interventions Politics of Bodily Scenarios

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2019

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Sabine Huschka is head of the research project Transgressionen funded by the German Research Fund (DFG) at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) and Berlin University of the Arts. She submitted her habilitation on Wissenskultur Tanz: Der choreographierte Körper im Theater in 2011 at the University of Leipzig and received her Ph.D. at Humboldt University, Berlin for her dissertation Merce Cunningham und der Moderne Tanz (summa cum laude). Her research focusses on cultural-theoretical approaches to stage dance, dance and knowledge, historiography of stage dance, re-enactment, as well as aesthetic theories of modern, postmodern and contemporary dance with special emphasis on aisthesiological and performance-analytical approaches.

Barbara Gronau is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts and spokesperson of the research training group Knowledge in the Arts, funded by the German Research Fund (DFG). She received her Ph.D. for her dissertation Theaterinstallationen. Performative Räume bei Beuys, Boltanski und Kabakov (2010), for which she obtained the »Joseph Beuys Award for Research«. Since her interest is also in theatre practice, she worked as a dramaturg and curator for several theatre productions and festivals.

Summary:

This volume collects academic as well as artistic explorations highlighting historical and contemporary approaches to the ›energetic‹ in its aesthetic and political potential. Energetic processes cross dance, performance art and installations. In contemporary dance and performance art, energetic processes are no longer mere conditions of form but appear as distinct aesthetic interventions. They transform the body, evoke specific states and push towards intensities.International contributors (i.e. Gerald Siegmund, Susan Leigh Foster, Lucia Ruprecht) unfold thorough investigations, elucidating maneuvers of mobilization, activation, initiation, regulation, navigation and containment of forces as well as different potentials and promises associated with the ›energetic‹.

»Der reale Mangel an Energie auf vielen Bühnen lässt dieses Buch wie ein Gegengift wirken.«

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Energy and Forces as Aesthetic Interventions 7 How to Talk About Energy? 23 Dancing the Energy/Energizing the Dancing 41 Aesthetic Scenarios of Energeia 55 »I was seeking and finally discovered the central spring of all movement« 71 Energetic Forces as Aesthetic Forces 87 Cosmology of Forces, Performative Fields 99 Gesture, Energy, Critique 121 Training Neoliberal Dancers 137 Energy, Eukinetics, and Effort 155 Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir's »Full Drop into the Body« 177 Working Processes in Dance 193 Notes on Contributors 207 List of Figures 211

ISBN:

9783839447031

3839447038

OCLC:

1109837223