Thomas F. (Hrsg.) DeFrantz

Choreography and Corporeality

Relay in Motion

Ebook (PDF Format)

Dance travels as does thought about dance. This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our emotions and prejudices, and our sense of public and private space. In so doing, they offer a multi-layered response to ideas of affect and emotion, culture and politics, and ultimately, the place of dance and art itself within society.The chapters in this collection arise from a number of different political and historical contexts. By teasing out th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Rothfield, Philipa (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-137-54653-1
EAN: 9781137546531
Produktnummer: 20701159
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 310 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 6'200 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße und 14 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Thomas F. DeFrantz is Professor and Chair of African and African American Studies at Duke University, USA, and director of SLIPPAGE: Performance, Culture, Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. He co-convened the Choreography and Corporeality working group (IFTR) from 2005-2013. Other books: Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance, Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture, and Black Performance Theory.Philipa Rothfield is an honorary staff member inphilosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. She has an intermittent dancepractice, having worked with Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Alice Cummins(Footfall Ensemble). She is a co-convener of the Choreography and Corporealityworking group (IFTR). She is dance reviewer for RealTime Magazine, MommMagazine, Korea and head of the Editorial Board for the Dancehouse Diary. She is also CreativeAdvisor for Dancehouse, Melbourne.