Writing dancing together[electronic ...
Briginshaw, Valerie A.

 

  • Writing dancing together[electronic resource] /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 792.8
    Title/Author: Writing dancing together/ [edited by] Valerie A. Briginshaw & RamsayBurt.
    other author: Briginshaw, Valerie A.
    Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    Description: xii, 244 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    Subject: Dance.
    Subject: Dance criticism.
    Subject: Dance - History.
    Subject: Dance - Social aspects.
    ISBN: 9780230235335
    ISBN: 0230235336
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Dancing Dicks / V.A.Briginshaw -- Modernism, masculinity and, sexuality in Nijinsky's L'Apèrs-midi d'un faune / R.Burt -- Rethinking Temporality: intertextual plays within and between discourses of space, time and performing bodies / V.A.Briginshaw & R.Chandler -- Fçaade, Elvis Legs, and the humorous pleasures of dancing / R.Burt -- Napoli and Palermo, Palermo: cosmopolitanism and energeticexcess / R.Burt -- '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 theIrreparable / V.A.Briginshaw -- Interview with Peter Pabst -- Interview with Meredith Monk about Turtle Dreams (Cabaret) -- Afterword -- 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 -- 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.
    [NT 15000229]: This collection of essays and interviews, written both separately and together over the last fifteen years traces a journey of writing and thinking about dance together. In doing so, it points to new ways of writing about and studying dance that focus on the distinctly open, affective and often intense ways in which dancers' and beholders' experienceperformance. The pieces and their introductions show how the authors have adapted their strategies to changing social, historical and political times and they provide examples of the importance of open, collaborative, ethical relations within dance and writing practices. Drawing heavily on continental philosophy, specifically the works of Bergson, Deleuze, Agamben and Spinoza, amongst others, issues of temporality, corporeality, memory and ethics are explored in depth through the discussion of selected ballets and contemporary dances from the last three centuries, sometimes in conjunction with visual art, theatre, film and music. Theessays also engage with cultural studies as issues of gender, sexuality, class and race within the works are investigated. Artists whose work is discussed come from Britain, the USA and continental Europe and the book's topics span historical periods from the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuriesto the last decade. Indeed it is part of the book's political agenda, whilst situating dances socially and historically, to also disrupt chronological notions of history by viewing and discussing works from very different historical periods alongside each other.
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