Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion

by Thomas F. DeFrantz (Editor), Philipa Rothfield (Editor)

Overview

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 their detail and situating dance within them, art is given a political charge. That charge is informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Rancière and Luce Irigaray as well as their forebears such as Spinoza, Plato and Freud. Taken together, Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion puts thought into motion, without forgetting its origins in the social world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349714094
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/21/2021
Series:	New World Choreographies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 in philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. She has an intermittent dance practice, having worked with Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Alice Cummins (Footfall Ensemble). She is a co-convener of the Choreography and Corporeality working group (IFTR). She is dance reviewer for RealTime Magazine, Momm Magazine, Korea and head of the Editorial Board for the Dancehouse Diary. She is also Creative Advisor for Dancehouse, Melbourne.

Table of Contents

1. RELAY; Philipa Rothfield and Thomas F. DeFrantz.- PART I. Rethinking Choreography.- 2. Tinkering Away; Philipa Rothfield.- 3.Choreography as Meshwork; Daisuke Muto.- 4.Flickering Photology; Nigel Stewart 5. Caribbean Dance, British Perspectives and the Choreography of Beverly Glean; ‘Funmi Adewole.- PART II. Circuits and Circulation.- 6. Festivals and Local Identities in a Global Economy; Janet O’Shea.- 7. Rhythmic Operations; Lim How Ngean.- 8.Embodying Interaction in Argentinean Tango and Sports Dance; Susanne Ravn.- 9.Speaking Africa; Franz Anton Cramer.- PART III. Affectivities.- 10. The Economy of Shame or Why Dance Cannot Fail; Elizabeth Dempster.- 11. Dancing and Thinking Politics with Deleuze and Rancière; Christel Stalpaert.- 12. Dancing the Downward Slide; Aoife McGrath.- 13. Afrofuturist Remains; Thomas F. DeFrantz.- PART IV. Sites of Representation.- 14. Discipline and Asian American Dance; Yutian Wong.- 15. Corporeal Memories; HannaJärvinen.- 16. Violence, Performance, and Relationality; Ramsay Burt.- 17. Dance in Chile; Adeline Maxwell.- 18. Dancing the Political; Lena Hammergren and Susan Leigh Foster.