152 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
152 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
152 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Involuntary Motion contributes to the study of refugee flight by using movement as a lens to explore problems in refugee performance and understand the experience of bodies in motion.
Drawing from somatics, movement analysis, and dance praxis, the chapters explore forces that set bodies in motion; the spaces in which forced movement occurs; the movement of refugee identity arcs; the... Read more
Introduction
1. Movement Initiation—Dance and Refugee Performance
2. Space, Time, and Energy—Revisiting Arendt: Spaces of Disappearance
3. Trace Forms—The Non-Hero’s Journey
4. Effort/Shape—Monstrosity and Refugee Bodies (Undocumented Zombies and Sea Creature)s
5. Bodies and Writing—Snap Judgement: Two Photographs of Writing on Immigrant Bodies
Epilogue: Is Stillness (still) a Right?
Biography
Jeff Kaplan is Assistant Professor of Dance & Theatre at Manhattanville College, USA.
