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Movements of Interweaving: Dance and Corporeality in Times of Travel and Migration book cover

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Movements of Interweaving Dance and Corporeality in Times of Travel and Migration

Edited By Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerko Egert, Holger Hartung Copyright 2019
374 Pages
by Routledge

374 Pages
by Routledge

374 Pages
by Routledge
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Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept of intercultural dance performances, but through its innovative approach also calls attention to... Read more

Movements of Interweaving



Introduction by Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerko Egert and Holger Hartung





PART I



Dancing, Traveling, Migrating





1 Akram Khan. The Creative Confusion of the Migrating Body



Guy Cools



2 Whale’s Tails and Rose Petals. Tanztheater’s Souvenir Bodies and Butoh’s Rwanda



Katherine Mezur



3 Hashtag Mitimiti. Reciprocities of Indigenized Dance



Jacqueline Shea Murphy



4 The Interweaving of Movement Cultures in Gregory Maqoma’s Beautiful Me



Sabine Sörgel





PART II



Corpo-Realities





5 Throwing the Aging Body into the Fight. Raimund Hoghe’s An Evening with Judy in Kyoto



Nanako Nakajima



6 The Gesture of Interweaving. A Look at the Landscape of Contemporary Dance in Brazil



Cristina F. Rosa



7 Deborah Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project



Susan Foster



8 From Curse to Cure through Performing the Contagious Body. Colonial and Postcolonial Dis/Continuities from Jean Rouch to Ousmane Sembène



Klaus-Peter Köpping





PART III



Movement as Interweaving





9 Reggie Wilson and the Making of Moses(es)



Susan Manning



10 Black Swan of Trespass: Dramaturgies of Public Space



Paul Carter



11 The Inception of Yanomami Shamanic Initiation and the Movement of Parts



Evelyn Schuler & Alfredo Zea





PART IV



Unweavings





12 Border Control––Framing the Atypical Body. You say radical, I say conservative; you say inclusive, I say subversive . . .



Kaite O’Reilly



13 ReNaissance of the Orient in Gustave Flaubert’s "Hérodias". Interwoven movement patterns in Salome’s Dance



Gabriele Brandstetter



14 Interweaving Dance Archives. Devadasis, Bayadères and Nautch Girls of 1838



Avanthi Meduri



15 The Contemplative Spectator. Seeing as a Mode of Stilling Mind



Navtej Johar

Biography

Gabriele Brandstetter is co-director of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" and Professor of Theater and Dance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.



　



Gerko Egert is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Applied Theater Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.



　



Holger Hartung is coordinator of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at the Freie Universität Berlin.

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