An investigation of dance and choreography that views them not only as artistic strategies but also as intrinsically theoretical and critical practices Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Precarious Rapture -- 2 Violent Desire -- 3 Ecstatic Community -- 4 Outer Spa…
An investigation of dance and choreography that views them not only as artistic strategies but also as intrinsically theoretical and criticalpractices.
Jenn Joy examines dance and choreography not only as artistic strategies and disciplines but also as intrinsically theoretical and critical practices. She investigates artists in dialogue with philosophy, describing a movement of conceptual choreography that flourishes in New Yo…
Introduction : opening to the choreographic -- Precarious rapture : lessons from the landscape -- Violent desire : writing laughing -- Ecstatic community -- Outer spaces : to write, to dance -- Conclusion : a return and a refrain.
The choreographic stages a conversation in which artwork not only is looked at but looks back; it is about contact that touches even across distance. The choreographic moves between the corporeal and cerebral to tell the stories of these encounters as dance trespasses into the d…
An investigation of dance and choreography that views them not only as artistic strategies but also as intrinsically theoretical and critical practices.
Within intellectual paradigms that privilege mind over matter, dance has long appeared as a marginal, derivative, or primitive art. Drawing support from theorists and artists who embrace matter as dynamic and agential, this book offers a visionary definition of dance that illumi…
Within intellectual paradigms that privilege mind over matter, dance has long appeared as a marginal, derivative, or primitive art. Drawing support from theorists and artists who embrace matter as dynamic and agential, this book offers a visionary definition of dance that illumi…
Within intellectual paradigms that privilege mind over matter, dance has long appeared as a marginal, derivative, or primitive art. Drawing support from theorists and artists who embrace matter as dynamic and agential, this book offers a visionary definition of dance that illumi…
Within intellectual paradigms that privilege mind over matter, dance has long appeared as a marginal, derivative, or primitive art. Drawing support from theorists and artists who embrace matter as dynamic and agential, this book offers a visionary definition of dance that illumi…
"This is a book ... about how and what six individuals, whose chosen art form is dance-making, think about that activity in a broader and deeper sense"--Foreword
André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this p…
Choreographing discourses: a Mark Franko reader
"Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes un-translated sources, and curating their relationship to a rapidly-changing field, this Reader o…