Choreography Invisible - The Disappearing Work of Dance

In Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance, Anna Pakes seeks to reconcile the ephemeral nature of dance with its status as a cultural object, through the lenses of cultural theory, philosophy, and contemporary dance theory.

About the author

Anna Pakes is Reader in Dance Studies at University of Roehampton, where she specializes in philosophy of dance, especially analytic philosophical approaches and themes. She is a former dancer and choreographer, co-editor of the anthology Thinking through Dance, English translator of Frédéric Pouillaude's Unworking Choreography (OUP, 2017), and winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics (2018).

Summary

In Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance, Anna Pakes seeks to reconcile the ephemeral nature of dance with its status as a cultural object, through the lenses of cultural theory, philosophy, and contemporary dance theory.

Additional text

Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance is indeed a must read.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Pakes, Anna (Senior Lecturer in Dance Pakes, Pakes Anna
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780199988228
• ISBN: 978-0-19-998822-8
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Choreography & Dance Notation, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology