Dance [and] Theory (Paperback)

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Contents 5
Dance [and] Theory. Introduction 11
Dancing and Theorizing and Theorizing Dancing 19
Artistic Research: Between Experiment and Presentation 35
A Few Remarks about Research in Dance and Performance or - The Production of Problems 45
Knowledge and Collective Praxis 51
It does not matter or The Artist Out (of the Picture) 63
Artistic Research between Dance and Theory - A Response in Six Questions 69
References 75
Aesthetic Experience 81
The Question of the Aesthetic 89
The Resistance to Dance Theory. Being-With, the Aesthetic Event 97
Beautiful Affects in Choreography 103
Intertwinings: The Dis/Positions of Dance Aesthetics 107
Unexpected Horizons of Meaning 115
Parallel Universes and Aesthetic Dis/Balance: Theory Interrupted, Dance Distracted 119
References 129
Dance Theory as a Practice of Critique 137
Dance and Politics 153
Pitfalls of 'the Political.' Politization as an Alternative Tool for Dance Analysis? 159
The Politics of Time 167
Contemporary Dance and the Critical Ontology of Actuality 173
Geo-Politics, Dissensus, and Dance Citizenship: The Case of South Asian Dance in Britain 177
Resilient Bodies, Stirred. Political Anecdotes from the Field of Contemporary Choreography 183
Remarks Concerning the Ontology of Dance 187
References 191
Dis/Balances. Dance and Theory 197
Steps and Gaps: Curatorial Perspectives on Dance and Archives 213
Body, Archive 219
The Constructive Compromise 223
Dance/Archive/Exhibition? Moving between Worlds 227
The Archive in Motion 231
"Mal d'Archive" - in a Different Sense than Jacques Derrida's 235
Leaving and Pursuing Traces 'Archive' and 'Archiving' in a Dance Context 241
References 247
Thoughts on the Now in the Future 253
A Relational Perspective on Dance and Theory - Implications for the Teaching of Dance Studies 265
de-position. Or How to Move in(to) the Future? 271
Embryology as Choreography 277
Hypothesis Number Nine: The Image Is an Organ 283
What's 'next'? 287
In the Making. On the Generation of Movement between Dance and Theory 291
An Institution Is only as Good as the People who Work there Can be. No? 297
References 309
Notes on Contributors 313