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Author Kaplan, Jeff

Title Involuntary Motion The Somatics of Refugee Performance
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (153 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The body in motion -- Choreographic "tools" -- Creative constraints -- The structure of the book -- The dancing species -- Notes -- References -- 1 Movement initiation: Dance and refugee performance -- Movement initiation -- Taking flight -- Connecting through dance -- Notes -- References -- 2 Body: Undocumented zombies and sea creatures -- The Effort/Shape of monsters -- The shape flow of blobs -- Undocumented zombies -- Creatures of the deep
A drowned child -- Notes -- References -- 3 Space: Revisiting Arendt and a trip to The Jungle -- Laban and space -- Spaces of appearance -- Spaces of disappearance -- A Jungle in Calais -- Notes -- References -- 4 Trace forms: The non-hero's journey -- The moving body in space -- Rescuing the hero1 -- Iftu's Story -- Al-Hakawati -- "The Lemon Fruit" -- "Iben Kanawat and Iben Atil" -- Notes -- References -- 5 Labanotation: Writing and/on/of refugee bodies -- Writing movement -- "I really don't care, do u?" -- "Being Human" -- Notes -- References -- Epilogue: Is stillness a right? -- Notes
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000204063
1000204065