1st Edition

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

    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 the specific qualities of "interweaving" as a form of movement itself.



    Divided into four sections, this volume features an international team of scholars together developing a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel and migration in and beyond dance.

    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.