Download e-book for iPad: Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and by Gabriele Klein

By Gabriele Klein

ISBN-10: 3837615960

ISBN-13: 9783837615968

The idea of "worldmaking" relies at the concept that the realm isn't really given, yet really produced via language, activities, rules and notion. This choice of essays takes a more in-depth verify hybrid and disparate worlds with regards to dance and choreography. Coming from a vast variety of alternative backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the methods of manufacturing dance worlds: via inventive perform, discourse and media, choreographic shape and dance fabric. The essays during this quantity significantly replicate the essential topos of dance as anything fleeting and ephemeral―an embodiment of the opposite in modernity. in addition, they show that there's greater than only one common "world of dance", yet particularly a mess of interrelated dance worlds with extra rising each day.

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By the 1980s, dance typed as experimental, to say nothing of sport labeled extreme, would be celebrated for its embrace and elaboration of risk (cf. McNamee 2007). There is certainly dance that courts danger, that demands sustained exertion, relishes speed, and subjects bodies to an edgy precarity, foregrounding risk also pursued the arts of surprise, violation of expectation, trespass of norm that might more readily place established cultural norms in danger of being disturbed. Risk in this regard, fueled dance’s gift economy.

A war metaphor was also central to the No Child Left Behind Legislation implemented two decades later under George W. Bush, which treated kids as casualties who would be rescued by raising their test scores. This war on education, was joined by a war on crime, drugs, welfare, culture and the arts, each designed to evacuate local autonomy in the name of nationally enforced remedial measures. The notion that some small portion of the population might detonate a failure for the rest also became the basis for the preemptive logic of the war on terror (cf.

The movement in question would share a social kinesthetic whose political effects it could not fully master. Dance work in these newly blossoming urban scenes would be flexible in ways that managerial humanism with its focus on quality circles, teams, B ETWEEN I NTERVENTION AND UTOPIA | 41 and other intimate ensembles would come to celebrate (cf. Gordon/Newfield 1996). The pick-up company could be taken as a kind of prototype for the selfmanaged, project-based, occasion-generated collaboration that was a celebrated feature of the new managerial approaches to conventional organizations (cf.

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