Emerging Bodies : the Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography.

The concept of "worldmaking" is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Klein, Gabriele
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors:	Noeth, Sandra
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2014.
Series:	TanzScripte Ser.
Subjects:	Dance > Social aspects. Choreography. Dance. Arts. Body. Cultural Theory. Gender. Imagination. Interculturalitity. Media. Psychoanalysis. Theatre Studies. Danse > Aspect social. Chorégraphie. Danse. dances (performance events) dances (performing arts compositions) dance (performing arts genre) ART / Criticism. PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General. PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism. PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. PHILOSOPHY / Social. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. Choreography Dance Dance > Social aspects Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Intro; Contents; Introduction; SOCIAL REALMS; Dancing Politics: Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography; Between Intervention and Utopia: Dance Politics; Dance and Work: The Aesthetic and Political Potential of Dance; The Collective That Isn't One; HYBRID SPHERES; Jérôme Bel and Myself: Gender and Intercultural Collaboration; Transnationalism and Contemporary African Dance: Faustin Linyekula; Flee(t)ing Dances! Initiatives for the Preservation and Communication of Intangible World Heritage in Museums; The Bluff of Contemporary Dance; ART WORLDS.
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Signature. Dancing and Writing between Resistance and ExcessAutobiography and the Coulisses: Narrator, Dancer, Spectator; Dance Images. Dance Films as an Example of the Representation and Production of Movement; Against the Beat. Music, Dance and the Image in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up; DIGITAL WORLDS
PROCESSING BODIES; Gesture Capture: Paradigms in Interactive Music/Dance Systems; Tables of Weights and Measures: Architecture and the Synchronous Objects Project; Synchronous Objects, Choreographic Objects, and the Translation of Dancing Ideas.
WORKING PRINCIPLESCommunicating, Distilling, Catalyzing. On the Creation of Dance Congress Worlds; Situational Worlds. Complicity as a Model of Collaboration; Protocols of Encounter: On Dance Dramaturgy; Notes on Contributors.