Sally Banes

André Lepecki

This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist. This volume examines the subtle actions of the human senses including taste, touch, smell and vision in all sorts of performances in Western and non-Western traditions, from ritual to theatre, from dance to interactive architecture, from performance art to historical opera. With eighteen original essays brought together by an international ensemble of leading scholars and artists including Richard Schechner and Philip Zarrilli. This covers a variety of disciplinary fields from critical studies to performance studies, from food studies to ethnography from drama to architecture. Written in an accessible way this volume will appeal to scholars and non-scholars interested in Performance/Theatre Studies and Cultural Studies.

The Senses in Performance

Fred Moten

Hito Steyerl

Julia Bryan-Wilson

Claire Bishop

Susan Leigh Foster

Kélina Gotman

Bojana Kunst

Mathieu Copeland

Katherine Dunham

Merce Cunningham

Christine Greiner

Claire Tancons

Thomas J. Lax

Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen

Germaine Acogny

Analivia Cordeiro

Carmen Luz

Cláudia Müller

Daniel Blanga Gubbay

G.R.E.S. Estação Primeira de Mangueira

Juliana Moraes

Leda Martins

Lucas Pedretti

Manuel Segade

Sophie Jacotot

Will Rawls

Zoila Mendoza-Walker

Esta Antologia reúne 28 textos em torno dos entrelaçamentos entre dança, cultura visual e políticas do corpo. São ensaios, discursos, textos críticos e de referência, bem como um samba-enredo, escritos por historiadores da dança e da arte, artistas, curadores, coreógrafos e dançarinos. O MASP organizou três seminários internacionais sobre as Histórias da dança entre 2018 e 2020, e 7 dos textos vêm dessas apresentações, enquanto os outros 21 são novas edições e traduções inéditas de textos fundamentais para pensar a dança e a coreografia — que corpos dançam, o que os move, como se movem e como são representados. Esta publicação supre uma lacuna no mercado editorial. Ela é essencial para quem tiver interesse nos debates em torno das relações da dança e as artes visuais e de sua presença nas galerias e museus. A Antologia de textos acompanha o volume Histórias da dança: catálogo, com ensaios e reproduções das obras e performances selecionadas para integrar a exposição coletiva articulada em torno do eixo temático do ano de 2020.

Histórias da dança: antologia

Peggy Phelan

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, London, 13 October 2010-9 January 2011; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 10 February-15 May 2011; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deusseldorf, 16 July-25 September 2011."--T.p. verso.

Choreographing You

Move

This collection surveys the choreographic turn in the artistic imagination from the 1950s onwards, and in doing so outlines the philosophies of movement instrumental to the development of experimental dance. By introducing and discussing the concepts of embodiment and corporeality, choreopolitics, and the notion of dance in an expanded field, Dance establishes the aesthetics and politics of dance as a major impetus in contemporary culture. It offers testimonies and writings by influential visual artists whose work has taken inspiration from dance and choreography. Dance--because of its ephemerality, corporeality, precariousness, scoring, and performativity--is arguably the art form that most clearly engages the politics of aesthetics in contemporary culture. Dance's ephemerality suggests the possibility of an escape from the regimes of commodification and fetishization in the arts.

Dance

This text and picture book designed by Bruce Mau reflects the myriad issues surrounding representations and concepts of the body, focusing on the body in movement. ReMembering the Body is dedicated to dance, the experimental territory par excellence of the moving body, and explores a variety of topics such as choreography in the cinema, choreography and spatial concepts, the aesthetics of violence and subversion in both the sciences and the arts, and notions of the body as a machine and as an animalistic organism. Texts by cultural critics such as Fredrich Kittler and Mau's picture essay combine to present fragments of the pictorial dismemberment of the body as a vivid history of movement. Arrestingly and uniquely designed, ReMembering the Body is an ideal and thoroughly indexed reference work as well as an important cultural document.

ReMembering the Body

Performance und die Politik der Bewegung

Option Tanz

Writing at the dynamic intersection of dance and performance studies. Of the Presence of the Body gathers nine original essays by eminent scholars in the fields of dance and performance studies. Its focus is the historical, cultural and political contexts that inform choreographic and dance practices and critical readings of dance—in other words, how dance operates as critical discourse. The question that runs throughout the essays is the theoretical and political problem of "how dances come to be seen," how the presence of the body leaves its mark on critical theories and performances. Focusing exclusively on 20th century dance, the interdisciplinary perspectives range from history to race studies, deconstruction, Marxist theory, feminist theory, literary studies and feminist ethnography. The anthology provides an overview of the current methodologies and theoretical developments in the field of dance studies. These essays expand our understanding of the performing body, and their organization around the epistemological problem in dance studies—the dynamics of seeing, remembering and writing—will make the collection useful for classes in dance criticism and theory, cultural theory, performance studies, and aesthetics. CONTRIBUTORS: Barbara Browning, Ramsey Burt, Thomas De Frantz, Mark Franko, André Lepecki, Karmen MacKendrick, Susan Manning, Randy Martin, Peggy Phelan.

Essays on Dance and Performance Theory

Of the Presence of the Body

Christopher Maurer

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