The Body Eclectic

The Body Eclectic

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  • Author: Melanie Bales
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN: 0252074890
  • Category : Dance
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 282

A discussion of current practices in modern dance training


The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies

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  • Author: Helen Thomas
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315306530
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 741

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments. It locates these features both historically—within dance in particular social and cultural contexts—and in relation to other academic influences that have impinged on dance studies as a discipline. The editors use a thematically based approach that emphasizes that dance scholarship does not stand alone as a single entity, but is inevitably linked to other related fields, debates, and concerns. Authors from across continents have contributed chapters based on theoretical, methodological, ethnographic, and practice-based case studies, bringing together a wealth of expertise and insight to offer a study that is in-depth and wide-ranging. Ideal for scholars and upper-level students of dance and performance studies, The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies challenges the reader to expand their knowledge of this vibrant, exciting interdisciplinary field.


Body, Language, and Mind

Body, Language, and Mind

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  • Author: Tom Ziemke
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 9783110193275
  • Category : Language and languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 484


Body Eclectic

Body Eclectic

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  • Author: Patrice Vecchione
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780605359406
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :


Choreography: The Basics

Choreography: The Basics

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  • Author: Jenny Roche
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000589897
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 194

This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of choreography both as a creative skill and as a field of study, introducing readers to the essential theory and context of choreographic practice. Providing invaluable practical considerations for creating choreography as well as leading international examples from a range of geographical and cultural contexts, this resource will enhance students’ knowledge of how to create dance. This clear guide outlines both historical and recent developments within the field, including how choreographers are influenced by technology and intercultural exchange, whilst also demonstrating the potential to address social, political and philosophical themes. It further explores how students can devise and analyse their own work in a range of styles, how choreography can be used in range of contexts – including site-specific work and digital technologies – and engages with communities of performers to give helpful, expert suggestions for developing choreographic projects. This book is a highly valuable resource for anyone studying dancemaking, dance studies or contemporary choreographic practice and those in the early stages of dance training who wish to pursue a career as a choreographer or in a related profession.


Performance/Art

Performance/Art

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  • Author: Shaun Gallagher
  • Publisher: Mimesis
  • ISBN: 8869773817
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

Performance/Art explores the phenomenology of skilled performance, ranging from athletics to the performing arts, including music, dance and acting. Gallagher reviews a variety of studies concerning different degrees of mindful awareness operative in performance, and builds on the concept of a meshed architecture, suggesting ways to make it more complex and dynamic. He draws on ideas from enactivist embodied cognition about how different types of movement can be meaningful and intelligent and can scaffold learning and problem solving. He also explicates the notion of an empathic mindfulness in performance and develops the idea of a double attunement to explain aesthetic experience in performance, distinguishing the latter from aesthetic experience in the observer/audience perspective.


Global Perspectives on Dance Pedagogy

Global Perspectives on Dance Pedagogy

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  • Author: Congress on Research in Dance. Conference
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Dance
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 396


Embodying Gender

Embodying Gender

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  • Author: Alexandra Howson
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 184787133X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

Embodying Gender provides students and academics with a critical overview of body concepts in both sociology and in feminism. Previously, sociologists have attempted to gender the body and feminists have attempted to embody gender but Alexandra Howson's accessible new text draws these two literatures together, pointing to ways of integrating feminist perspectives on the body into sociological theory. Surveying all the key concepts in the field, this book introduces us to an extensive range of 'narratives of embodiment' and presents a full analysis of the most important texts in new feminist theories of the body. Key questions covered include: o What can sociology say about the body? o What impact has the body made on sociology? o What conceptual frameworks are used to address the body? How do these relate to issues of gender and embodied experience? o How do feminist conceptual tools sit within sociological analysis? Written in a clear, accessible style, Embodying Gender is an invaluable text for undergraduate students, postgraduates and academics in the fields of women's and gender studies and sociology, and is particularly relevant to those specialising in sociology of the body, feminist theory and social theory.


Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance

Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance

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  • Author: Annelies Van Assche
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030406938
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 298

This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective. It provides a dance scholarly and sociological interpretation of its mechanisms by coupling qualitative data (interview material, observations, logbooks, and dance performances) to theoretical insights. The book uncovers the sometimes contradicting mechanisms related to the precarious project-oriented labor and art market that determine the working and living conditions of contemporary dance artists in Europe’s dance capitals Brussels and Berlin. In addition, it examines how these working and living conditions affect the work process and outcome. From a sociological perspective, the book engages with the relevant contemporary social issue of precarity and this within the much-at-risk professional group of contemporary dance artists. In this regard, the research brings novelty within the subject area, particularly by employing a unique methodological approach. Although the research is initially set up in a specific geographical context and within a specific research population, the book offers insights into issues that affect our neoliberal society at large. The research findings show potential to make a relevant contribution with regards to precarity within dance studies and performance studies, but also labor studies and cultural sociology.


Ethical Agility in Dance

Ethical Agility in Dance

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  • Author: Noyale Colin
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 100098379X
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 347

This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience. This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary dance training in Britain from dance educators, scholars, practitioners and artists. Through examining the politics, values and ethics of learning dance today, this book argues for the need of a re-assessment of the evolving practices in dance training and techniques. Key questions address how the concept of ‘technique’ and associated systems of training in dance could be redefined to enable the collaboration of skills and application of ideas necessary to twenty-first-century dance. The editors present these ideas in different modes of writing. This collection of essays, conversations and manifestos offers a way to explore, debate and grasp the shifting values of contemporary dance. Examining these values in the applied field of dance reveals a complex and contrasting range of ideas, encompassing broad themes including the relationships between individuality and collectivity, rigour and creativity, and virtuosity and inclusivity. This volume points to ethical techniques as providing a way of navigating these contrasting values in dance. It serves as an invaluable resource for academics as well as practitioners and students.