Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment investigates new forms of choreographic dramaturgy and interpretation inherent. Joining junior and senior scholars as well as practitioners in the field, the handbook shows how the recovery of past dances has come to constitute a new branch of contemporary choreographic activity.

List of contents

• Contents


• 1. Introduction: The Power of Recall in A Post-Ephemeral Era


• Mark Franko


• Phenomenology of the Archive


• 2. Tracing Sense/Reading Sensation: an essay on imprints and other matter


• Martin Nachbar


• 3. Giving Sense to the Past: Historical D(ist)ance and the Chiasmatic Interlacing of Affect and Knowledge


• Timmy de Laet


• 4. Martha@...The 1963 Interview - Sonic Bodies, Seizures and Spells


• Richard Move


• Historical Fiction and Historical Fact


• 5. Reenactment, Reconstruction and Dance Historical Fictions


• Anna Pakes


• 6. Bound and Unbound: Reconstructing Merce Cunningham's Crises (1960)


• Carrie Noland


• 7. The Motion of Memory, the Question of History. Recreating Rudolf Laban's Choreographic Legacy


• Susanne Franco


• Proleptic Iteration


• 8. To the Letter: Lettrism, Dance, Reenactment


• Frédéric Pouillaude


• 9. Letters to Lila and Dramaturg's Notes on Future Memory: Inheriting Dance's Alternative Histories


• Kate Elswit with Rani Nair


• Investigative Reenactment: Transmission as Heuristic Device


• 10. (Re)enacting Thinking in Movement


• Maaike Bleeker


• 11. Not Made by Hand, or Arm, or Leg: The Acheiropoietics of Performance


• Branislav Jakovljevic


• 12. Pedagogic In(ter)ventions: On the Potential of (Re)enacting Yvonne Rainer's Continuous Project-Altered Daily (1969/70) in a Dance Education Context


• Yvonne Hardt


• Enacting Testimony/Performing Cultural Memory/ Spectatorship as Practice


• 13. What Remains of the Witness? Testimony as Epistemological Category: Schlepping the Trace


• Susanne Foellmer


• 14. Baroque Relations: Performing Silver and Gold in Daniel Rabel's "Ballets of the Americas"


• VK Preston


• 15. Reenacting Ritual Dance-Theater of India: The case of Kaisika Natakam


• Ketu H. Katrak with Anita Ratnam


• 16. Gloriously Inept and Satisfyingly True: Reenactment and the Practice of Spectating


• P.A. Skantze


• The Politics of Reenactment


• 17. Blasting out of the Past: the Politics of History and Memory in Janez's Reconstructions


• Ramsay Burt


• 18. Reenactment as Racialized Scandal


• Anthea Kraut


• 19. Reenacting Modernist Time: William Kentridge's The Refusal of Time


• Christel Staelpart


• Redistributions of Time in Geography, Architecture, and Modernist Narrative


• 20. Quito-Brussels: A Dancer's Cultural Geography


• Fabián Barba


• 21. Dance and the Distributed Body: Odissi and Mahari Performance


• Anurima Banerji


• 22. Imagined Re-embodiment between Text and Dance


• Susan Jones


• Epistemologies of Inter-temporality


• 23. Affect, Technique, and Discourse: Being Actively Passive in the Face of History: Reconstruction of Reconstruction


• Gerald Siegmund


• 24. Epilogue to an Epilogue: Historicizing the Re- in Danced Reenactment


• Mark Franko


• 25. The Time of Reenactment in Basse Danse and Bassadanza


• Seeta Chaganti


• 26. Time Layers, Time Leaps, Time Lost. Methodologies of Dance Historiography


• Christina Thurner


• Reenactment in/as Global Knowledge Circulation


• 27. (In)distinct Positions: The Politics of Theorizing Choreography


• Jens Richard Giersdorf


• 28. Scenes of Reenactment/Logics of Derivation in Dance


• Randy Martin


• 29. A Proposition for Reenactment: Disco Angola by Stan Douglas


• Catherine M. Soussloff


• 30. Dance (Re)searching its Own History: On the Contemporary Circulation of Past Knowledge


• Sabine Huschka


• Afterword


• Notes After the Fact


• Lucia Ruprecht

About the author

Mark Franko, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance and Chair of Dance, Boyer College of Music and Dance (Temple University), has published six books: Martha Graham in Love and War: the Life in the Work; Excursion for Miracles: Paul Sanasardo, Donya Feuer, and Studio for Dance; The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s; Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics; Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body; The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography. Franko was editor of Dance Research Journal, edited Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, co-editor of Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines; and, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series. He is recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance Award from the Congress in Research in Dance. Choreograping Discourses: A Mark Franko Reader (edited with Alessandra Nicifero) is forthcoing at Routledge.

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device, the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory, pedagogy, theory of history, reconstruction as a methodology, testimony and witnessing, theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature, and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.

Additional text

Overall, this volume provides an invaluable platform for profound engagement with a complex layering of possibilities and experiments in which documentary and remembered evidence of past dances dialogues with the reality of present-day corporeality.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Franko, Mark (EDT) Franko, Mark (Professor of Dance Franko
• Assisted by: Mark Franko (Editor), Franko Mark (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780197533895
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753389-5
• No. of pages: 680
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Dance, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Choreography & Dance Notation, Other performing arts, Dance & Other Performing Arts