Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography (Paperback)

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Introduction 7
Dancing Politics: Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography 17
Between Intervention and Utopia: Dance Politics 29
Dance and Work: The Aesthetic and Political Potential of Dance 47
The Collective That Isn't One 61
Jerome Bel and Myself: Gender and Intercultural Collaboration 73
Transnationalism and Contemporary African Dance: Faustin Linyekula 83
Flee(t)ing Dances! Initiatives for the Preservation and Communication of Intangible World Heritage in Museums 93
The Bluff of Contemporary Dance 107
Transcription - Materiality - Signature. Dancing and Writing between Resistance and Excess 119
Autobiography and the Coulisses: Narrator, Dancer, Spectator 137
Dance Images. Dance Films as an Example of the Representation and Production of Movement 149
Against the Beat. Music, Dance and the Image in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up 163
Gesture Capture: Paradigms in Interactive Music/ Dance Systems 183
Tables of Weights and Measures: Architecture and the Synchronous Objects Project 195
Synchronous Objects, Choreographic Objects, and the Translation of Dancing Ideas 207
Communicating, Distilling, Catalyzing. On the Creation of Dance Congress Worlds 225
Situational Worlds. Complicity as a Model of Collaboration 235
Protocols of Encounter: On Dance Dramaturgy 247
Notes on Contributors 257
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