Planes of Composition

by Lepecki, Andre; Joy, Jenn

• ISBN13: 9781906497248
• ISBN10: 1906497249
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Seagull Books

Summary

Gathering 18 original essays by eminent choreographers, philosophers, and dance and performance theorists from across the globe,The Planes of Compositionfocuses on how contemporary choreographic strategies initiate new modes of understanding the moving body in its multiple performances: racial, kinetic, political, ethical, and theoretical. Adding to the expanding field of critical dance studies and critical movement studies, the contributors address a variety of formations arising from hybrid theoretical and performative compositionscompositions of everyday kinetics with philosophical considerations of political modernity; compositions of certain staged choreographic works with the formations of racial identities in specific postcolonial contexts; compositions between embodied practices and theoretical practices. This volume will be of interest to scholars in critical dance studies, philosophy, performance studies, and cultural and postcolonial studies as it proposes new and creative dialogues among these disciplines.

Author Biography

André Lepecki is associate professor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. His books include Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement and Of the Presence of the Body. Jenn Joy is a Ph.D. candidate in performance studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and she has been a lecturer in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. viii
The Stop and Go of Postmodernity
Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of Self-Intensification	p. 3
Jagged Presence in the Liquid City: Choreographing Hong Kong's Handover	p. 15
Dancing Embodiment, Theorizing Space: Exploring the 'Third Space' in Akram Khan's zero degrees	p. 40
Anatomies of Spasm	p. 64
Assembling Relations
Paradoxical Body	p. 85
The Elasticity of the Almost	p. 107
Stroboscopic Stutter: On the Not-Yet-Captured Ontological Condition of Limit-Attractions	p. 123
Relational Gestures: Allitérations and the Limits of the Choreographic	p. 160
Scène and Contemporaneity	p. 175
Creative Endurance and the Face Machine: Roseanne Spradlin's Survive Cycle	p. 192
How to Knit Your Own Private Political Body? On deufert + plischke's Directory Project	p. 209
Expanding Choreography
Drawing with Feet, Walking on Hands: Robin Rhode's Frequency	p. 235
Four Years Later	p. 254
Deborah Hay's O, O	p. 279
Researching Dance in the Wild: Brazilian Experiences	p. 292
Apparatus, Attention and the Body: The Theatre Machines of Boris Charmatz	p. 318
Paratopias of Performance: The Choreographic Practices of Chandralekha	p. 346
Gesturing Hooman Sharifi: On Gesture, Mass and Resistance	p. 372
Notes on Contributors	p. 395
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