Improvised Dance

(In)Corporeal Knowledges
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-03-243828-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal dimensions of practice.

Mobilising the languages and conceptual frameworks of theories of affect, embodied cognition, somatics, and dance, this book illustrates the work of specialist improvisers who occupy divergent positions within the complex field of improvised dance. It offers an alternative narrative of the history and current practice of Western improvised dance centred on the epistemology of its (in)corporeal knowledges, which are elusive yet vital to the refinement of expertise.

Written for both a disciplinary-specific and interdisciplinary audience, this book will interest dance scholars, students, and practising artists.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wait, Nalina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Geschichte des Tanzes
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Western Improvised Dance: Practices, Pedagogies, and Language 2. Dewey and the Pre-history of Western Improvisation 3. Embodied Consciousness 4. Resonance of Affect and Immanent Evaluation 5. The Aesthetics of an Ethics of Being 6. Cultivating Movement Systems 7. Prohibitive and Emancipative Self-Surveillance

Über Autor(innen)

Nalina Wait is a dance artist and pracademic currently lecturing at the Australian College of Physical Education. She is of Irish settler descent and lives on Gadigal Country in Eora, Sydney. Her interests are the practice and performance of dance improvisation, somatics, and the cultivation of somatic intelligence.