Sentient Performativities of Embodiment (eBook)

Thinking alongside the Human

Lynette Hunter, Elisabeth Krimmer, Peter Lichtenfels (Herausgeber)

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2016
384 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2721-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection addresses the burgeoning interest in the body as a site of affective and somatic, as well as sociocultural, communication. It explores what performers do with bodies in practice, rehearsal, and performance and how that translates to audiences and their sociopolitical contexts.

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This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is interested in interactions between bodies and other bodies, bodies and environments, and bodies and objects.

Autor

Lynette Hunter is professor of history of rhetoric and performance at the University of California, Davis.Elisabeth Krimmer is professor of German at the University of California, Davis.Peter Lichtenfels is professor of theater and dramatic arts at the University of California, Davis.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Weird Embodiment by Timothy MortonChapter 2. The Senses and Sciences of Fascia: a Practice as Research Investigation by Joseph Dumit and Kevin O’Connor Chapter 4. The Performativity of Performance: Doing Things with Bodies and What Words Might Do in Relation to That. A Lecture/Demonstration (Not for the Squeamish) by Jess CurtisChapter 5. Enminded Performance: Dancing with a Horse by Nita Little Chapter 7. Her Heart Can Lift Mountains by Beating: Form and Formlessness in Performance Process by Sean FeitPart III: The Body in Performance—Emergence Chapter 9. Kantor’s DIRECTOR: “I will be myself, but I will be with the actors” by Peter Lichtenfels Part IV: Bodies Walking, Bodies WritingChapter 10. Where Can Walking Be Taking Me? by Álvaro Iván Hernández RodríguezChapter 11. Walking with/Com-Pains: (Re-)(Em)bodying Missteps and Messmates by Ilya NoéChapter 12. Walking Home: A Feminist Tracing of Home and Belonging by Maureen BurdockPart V: Bodies—Critical Race, Politics and HistoryChapter 15. Presidential Dancing: The Bodies of Heads of State by Maxine Leeds Craig Chapter 16. Socialization through the Arts: Katherine Dunham as Social Activist by Halifu Osumare

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2016
• Co-Autor: Hilary Bryan, Brian Massumi, Timothy Morton, Ilya Noe, Kevin O'Connor, Halifu Osumare, Bryan Reynolds, Alvaro Ivan Hernandez Rodriguez, Guy Zimmerman, Maureen Burdock, Maxine Leeds Craig, Jess Curtis, Joseph Dumit, Sean Feit, Verena Hutter, Nita Little, Erin Manning
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 7 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: attention • Audience • Body Theory • Critical race • Embodiment • Performance • performativity • Rehearsal Practice • Somatic Praxis • Walking
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2721-3 / 1498527213
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2721-7 / 9781498527217