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Author : Ann Cooper Albright
Release : 1997
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 217/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Choreographing Difference by : Ann Cooper Albright
Download or read book Choreographing Difference written by Ann Cooper Albright. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist theory illuminates the radical cultural work of contemporary dance.
Author : Ann Cooper Albright
Release : 2010-06-01
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 912/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Choreographing Difference by : Ann Cooper Albright
Download or read book Choreographing Difference written by Ann Cooper Albright. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity — a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cultural representation becomes embedded in the body. In arguing for the intelligence of bodies, Choreographing Difference is itself a testimonial, giving voice to some important political, moral, and artistic questions of our time. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.
Author : Petra Sabisch
Release : 2011
Genre : Choreography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 203/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Choreographing Relations by : Petra Sabisch
Download or read book Choreographing Relations written by Petra Sabisch. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Choreographing Relations" undertakes the experiment of a conceptual site development of contemporary choreography by means of practical philosophy. Guided by the radically empiricist question "What Can Choreography Do?" the book investigates the performances of Antonia Baehr, Juan Dominguez, Xavier Le Roy, and Eszter Salamon, and the philosophical works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It establishes a relation between these practitioners as an encounter in method, and develops method as a singular, material and experimental practice. In view of these singular methods and the participatory relations to which they give rise, Choreographing Relations offers a prolific inventory of arepresentational procedures that qualitatively transformed choreography and philosophy at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author : Bruce Henderson
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 470/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies by : Bruce Henderson
Download or read book Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies written by Bruce Henderson. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance art, photography, silent film, dance, personal narrative and theatre, using such diverse perspectives and methods as queer theory, gender, feminist, and masculinity studies, dance studies, as well as providing first publication of creative writings by award-winning poets and playwrights. This book was based on a special issue of Text and Performance Quarterly.
Author : Lauren Kearns
Release : 2017-10-01
Genre : Health & Fitness
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Somatics in Action by : Lauren Kearns
Download or read book Somatics in Action written by Lauren Kearns. This book was released on 2017-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somatics in Action describes a Pilates, yoga, and dance inspired movement system that helps movers achieve optimum strength, skeletal alignment, and body-mind engagement. The book integrates the Pilates principle of strengthening abdominal and spinal musculature to support postural stability and balance with alignment-based yoga's principle of proper physical placement and an understanding of anatomical structure. Three additional concepts that contribute to the foundation of SIA are imagery, experiential anatomy, and body integration. This work focuses on dancers consistently engaging with their body and mind's inner wisdom, not only in quiet moments of reflection, but also in the very active moments of moving, dancing and creating. Somatics in Action details the unique movement theory and practice developed by the author. The book blends yoga, Pilates, experiential anatomy, body integration and imagery into a comprehensive, rigorous and creative pedagogical tool for educators and dancers. The textbook outlines how dance, movement, yoga and Pilates educators can incorporate this technique into their teaching and curriculum. The book: * provides thoughtful and nuanced explanation of the technique as well as detailed lesson plans and assignments that can be implemented immediately into a university or other curriculum. * can be used in any somatic based class (yoga, Pilates, dance conditioning), in modern dance technique courses and also in creative movement curricula
