1st Edition

Choreographing Discourses A Mark Franko Reader

By Mark Franko, Alessandra Nicifero Copyright 2019
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly changing field, this Reader offers an important resource in the dynamic scholarly fields of Dance and Performance Studies. What makes this... Read more

Foreword

Randy Martin

Preface

Mark Franko

Introduction

  1. Gay Morris, Re-conceptualizing Time, Historical Time, and the Time of Interpretation
  2. André Lepecki, Theory’s moves

Chapters

1. Writing for the Body: Notation, Reconstruction, and Reinvention in Dance

2. History/Theory -- Criticism/Practice

3. From Croce’s Critical Condition to the Choreographic Public Sphere

4. Splintered Encounters: The Critical Reception of William Forsythe in the United States, 1979-1989

5. Archeological Choreographic Practices: Foucault and Forsythe

6. Figurae: Re-translating the Encounter between Peter Welz, William Forsythe and Francis Bacon

7. Dance and Figurability

8. Can We Inhabit a Dance? Reflections on Dancing the "Bauhaus Dances" in Dessau

9. The Readymade as Movement: Cunningham, Duchamp, and Nam June Paik’s Two Merces

10. Dance as Sign and Unruly Corporeality in Pasolini’s Film and Theory

11. The Dancing Gaze Across Cultures: Kazuo Ohno’s Admiring La Argentina

12. Bausch and The Symptom

13. The Quarrel of the Queen and the Transvestite: Sexuality, Class and Subculture in Paris is Burning

14. Dance, the De-materialization of Labor, and the Productivity of the Corporeal

15. In the Company of Donya Feuer: an Interdisciplinary Method

16. In Conversation: Alessandra Nicifero with Mark Franko

Bibliography

Publications

Performance History

Choreography, Performance

Index

Biography

Mark Franko is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance at Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University (Philadelphia). Founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series, Franko is currently a Guggenheim Fellow, writing a book on French neoclassical ballet.

Alessandra Nicifero is a dance writer and translator based in New York City. Her major interests focus on movement analysis, social choreography, the spatial organization of memories, and archiving dance material. Currently, she is studying at the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.