With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to explore notions of space, time, identity, sensation, memory and ethics.

VALERIE A. BRIGINSHAW is a retired Professor of Dance, Chichester University, UK. Her publications include Dance, Space and Subjectivity and chapters in Analysing Performance, Dance in the City, Preservation Politics, Performing Nature and Anarchic Dance.

 

RAMSAY BURT is Professor of Dance History at De Montfort University, UK. His publications include The Male Dancer, Alien Bodies, and Judson Dance Theater. In 1999 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University. With Professor Susan Foster, he is founder editor of Discourses in Dance.

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

SECTION 1: AGAINST THE GRAIN: SEXUALITY AND BALLET CRITICISM

Dancing Dicks--V.A.Briginshaw

Modernism, masculinity and, sexuality in Nijinsky's L'Aprs-midi d'un faune--R.Burt

SECTION 2: RETHINKING TEMPORALITY: PREPOSTEROUS HISTORIES

Rethinking Temporality: intertextual plays within and between discourses of space, time and performing bodies--V.A.Briginshaw &--R.Chandler

Faade, Elvis Legs, and the humorous pleasures of dancing--R.Burt

Napoli and Palermo, Palermo: cosmopolitanism and energetic excess--R.Burt

SECTION 3: UNCONTROLLABLE INTENSITIES

'Don't mention Busby Berkeley': a re-assessment of Lea Anderson's Yippeee!!!--V.A.Briginshaw &--R.Burt

Corporeality and materiality in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater: - notions of the Irreparable: V.A.Briginshaw

SECTION 4: TWO INTERVIEWS

Interview with Peter Pabst

Interview with Meredith Monk about Turtle Dreams (Cabaret)

Afterword

SECTION 5: INSURMOUNTABLE MEMORIES

Danced testimonies of the traumas of migration--R.Burt

Sensation and memory in Emilyn Claid's Remember to Forget (2003) and Gilles Deleuze's discussion of Francis Bacon's paintings--V.A.Briginshaw

SECTION 6: RE-IMAGINING DANCING TOGETHER

Affective Differences and Repetitions in Both Sitting Duet--V.A.Briginshaw

What the dancing body can do: Spinoza and the ethics of experimental theatre dance--R.Burt

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index