| Description |
1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Cognitive studies in literature and performance |
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Cognitive studies in literature and performance.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- About This Book -- Naturalizing Postdramatic Theatre -- Perceptual Performativity -- Bibliography -- Part I: Unsettling Seeing: Obscuration -- Chapter 2: Tenebrism: Seeing (in) the Dark -- Blackouts and Bumps -- Dark Dramaturgies -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Gloaming: Dimming and Visions -- Atmospheric Studies -- Dancing, in the Dark: Limb's Theorem -- Welcome to What You Think You See -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Occlusion: Comings and Goings -- Now You See It, Now You Don't -- Bibliography |
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Chapter 5: Hiding in Plain Sight: Simultaneity -- Polycentrism in Balanchine and Forsythe -- You See? -- Bibliography -- Part II: Unsettling Hearing: Thresholds of Attention and Perception -- Chapter 6: Quiet: Hush, Caesurae, and Deep Silence -- Dancing in Silence(s) -- Hush -- Caesurae -- Deep Silence -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Lull: Ostinati and Drones -- Immersion, Absorption, and Intrusion -- Minimalism and Disturbance -- Ostinati -- Hypnotic Drones -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Overwhelm: Audio-Visual Stress -- Plethora and Sublime Excess -- Bibliography |
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Part III: Sounding Dancing: The Senses in Concert -- Chapter 9: Visuosonic Counterpoint: Seeing Music and Hearing Dance -- A History of Moving with [etc.] Music -- (E)Merge: Visuosonic Counterpoint -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: Breath Scores and Corporeal Sounds: Dance as Symphony -- Intimate Scenographies -- Stop, Look, Listen: Three Atmospheric Studies Part 1 -- Suspense and Deception in Three Atmospheric Studies Part 1 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: Auditory Turn: Vocal Choreography -- Amplifying Embodied Experience: Decreation -- Reading the Room: Sounding Scores -- Step, Inside |
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Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Epilogue -- Every Time I Step Inside I Remember What I Never Thought -- Everything Will Be Alright -- Bibliography -- Chronological List of Works -- Index |
| Summary |
This book takes choreographer William Forsythes choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamentally visuo-sonic art form and choreography as a form of perceptual experimentation. In doing so, it reveals how the made worlds within which postdramatic dance is situated influence how choreography is perceived. Resonating with ecological perspectives but also drawing on an extensive range of cognitive research approaches, the volumes choreo-scenographic perspective emphasizes the importance of considering the expanded scenography of lighting, sound, space, scenic elements, costume, and performer movement when analyzing the sensory and cognitive perception of dance. The volume provides a first book-length cognitive study of both an individual choreographer and the aesthetics of postdramatic theatre. It also satisfies a need for more dedicated scholarship on Forsythe, whose extensive and varied array of groundbreaking ballets and dance theater works for the Ballett Frankfurt (1984-2004), The Forsythe Company (2005-15), and as an independent choreographer have made him a key figure in 20th/21st century dance. Freya Vass is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, UK, and a freelance dance dramaturg. Her principal research interests include cognitive dance studies, dance dramaturgy, performativity, devising, and arts-sciences interdisciplinarity. A former professional dancer with companies in Europe and the US, she holds a PhD in Dance History and Theory and was Dramaturg and Production Assistant for The Forsythe Company from 2006 2013. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Forsythe, William, 1949-
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Choreography.
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Dance.
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dance (performing arts genre)
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Choreography.
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Dance.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3031266587 |
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9783031266584 |
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