Ebook: Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography
Author: Gabriele Klein (editor), Sandra Noeth (editor), Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection (editor)
- Series: TanzScripte, 21
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: transcript Verlag
- Edition: 1. Aufl.
- Language: English
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The concept of »worldmaking« is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing 'dance worlds': through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form and dance material.
The essays in this volume critically reflect the predominant topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral - an embodiment of the Other in modernity. Moreover, they demonstrate that there is more than just one universal »world of dance«, but rather a multitude of interrelated dance worlds with more emerging every day.