Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
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