| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
New world choreographies |
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New world choreographies.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- States of contemporary dance -- Choreographies of difference-making -- Germaine Acogny : convective heat and ground-shift in contemporary African dance -- Sardono Kusumo : vibratory heat, juxtapositional disruptions, and danced rupture -- Nora Chipaumire : Rewriting as decolonizing heat -- Rulan Tangen : entangling memory, relationality, and repitition to heat up contemporary Indigenous dance -- Lemi Ponifasio, Camille Brown, Prumsodun Ok, Alice Sheppard : constellatory heat and light on alterity -- Heat : an entropic practice of contemporary dancing |
| Summary |
This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core. Differently, the book reimagines contemporary dance along a "South-South" axis, as a poly-centric, justice-oriented, aesthetic-temporal category, with intersectional understandings of difference as a central organizing principle. Placing alterity and heat, generated via multiple pathways, at its center, it foregrounds the work of South-South artists, who push against constructions of "tradition" and white-centered aesthetic imperatives, to reinvent their choreographic toolkit and respond to urgent questions of their times. In recasting the grounds for a different "global stage," the argument widens its scope to indicate how dance-making both indexes current contextual inequities and broader relations of social, economic, political, and cultural power, and inaugurates future dimensions of justice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
Modern dance.
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Modern dance -- Philosophy
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Choreography.
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Choreography
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Modern dance
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Modern dance -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030439125 |
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3030439127 |
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