Choreographing Problems Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance

by Cvejic, Bojana

• ISBN13: 9781137437389
• ISBN10: 1137437383
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-09-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance illuminates the relationship between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and experimental dance and performance in the works of leading European choreographers, Xavier Le Roy, Jonathan Burrows, Boris Charmatz, Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, Jefta van Dinther, and Jan Ritsema. Combining intricate analysis of seven groundbreaking works, including Self Unfinished by Le Roy (1998) and Weak Dance Strong Questions (2001) by Burrows and Ritsema, with a philosophical discussion of the body, movement and time in performance, as well as the notions of theatricality, affect, improvisation and process, the capacity of choreography to 'express' thought is unravelled.

Choreographing problems involves composing ruptures between movement, the body and duration in performance such that they engender a shock upon sensibility, one that inhibits recognition. This book offers a practical insight into the matters of choreography: it allows both the versed and the non-trained spectator to observe in detail how the thought and the practices of making, performing and attending reinvent performance and dance today.

Author Biography

Bojana Cvejic is a performance theorist and performance maker. She is co-author of several books including Public Sphere by Performance with A. Vujanovic (2012), and En Atendant & Cesena: A Choreographer's Score with A.T.De Keersmaeker (2013), and performance creative since 1996. Bojana Cvejic teaches at various dance and performance programs in Europe including P.A.R.T.S., Brussels.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1.Problems and Expressive Concepts
2.Disjunctive Captures of the Body and Movement
3.Theatrical Apparatuses of Disjunction
4.Exhausting Improvisation: 'Stutterances'
5.A Critical Departure from Emotionalism: Sensations and Affects in the Mode of Performing
6.During and After Performance: Processes, Caesuras and Resonances
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index