1st Edition

Moving Relation Touch in Contemporary Dance

By Gerko Egert Copyright 2020
168 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance. By closely analyzing performances by well-known European and American choreographers such as Meg Stuart, William Forsythe, Xavier Le Roy, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot, this book investigates their usage of touch on the level of movement, experience and affect. Building on the proposition that touch is... Read more

List of figures;  Introduction;  Tangent: approaches;  1. Moving relations, or: how touch dances;  2. Surging, fleeting, fading: affect and touch;  3. The autonomy of touch;  Tangent: nudity;  4. Body tremors;  5. I, a touch;  6. Meteorology of touch;  7. Touching touch;  NotesBibliographyIndex

Biography

Gerko Egert is a dance and theater studies scholar. He is postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen. His publications include Movements of Interweaving (co-edited with Brandstetter and Hartung, 2019) and "Choreographing the Weather – Weathering Choreography" (TDR, 2016).