Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion (New World by Thomas F. DeFrantz,Philipa Rothfield

By Thomas F. DeFrantz,Philipa Rothfield

This ebook renews pondering the relocating physique by means of drawing on dance perform and function from internationally. Eighteen across the world regarded students express how dance can problem our options and emotions approximately our personal and different cultures, our feelings and prejudices, and our feel of private and non-private house. In so doing, they give a multi-layered reaction to principles of impact and emotion, tradition and politics, and eventually, where of dance and artwork itself inside society.

The chapters during this assortment come up from a few assorted political and historic contexts. via teasing out their element and situating dance inside of them, paintings is given a political cost. That cost is knowledgeable through the paintings of Michel Foucault, Stuart corridor, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Rancière and Luce Irigaray in addition to their forebears corresponding to Spinoza, Plato and Freud. Taken together, Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion puts concept into movement, with out forgetting its origins within the social world.

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This e-book renews pondering the relocating physique by means of drawing on dance perform and function from internationally. Eighteen the world over acknowledged students exhibit how dance can problem our concepts and emotions approximately our personal and different cultures, our feelings and prejudices, and our experience of private and non-private house.

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