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Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept of intercultural dance performances, but through its innovative approach also calls attention to the specific qualities of "interweaving" as a form of movement itself.
Divided into four sections, this volume features an international team of scholars together developing a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel and migration in and beyond dance.
List of contents
Movements of Interweaving
Introduction by Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerko Egert and Holger Hartung
PART I
Dancing, Traveling, Migrating
1
Akram Khan. The Creative Confusion of the Migrating BodyGuy Cools
2 Whale's Tails and Rose Petals.
Tanztheater's Souvenir Bodies and
Butoh's Rwanda
Katherine Mezur
3 Hashtag Mitimiti. Reciprocities of Indigenized Dance
Jacqueline Shea Murphy
4 The Interweaving of Movement Cultures in Gregory Maqoma's
Beautiful MeSabine Sörgel
PART II
Corpo-Realities
5 Throwing the Aging Body into the Fight. Raimund Hoghe's
An Evening with Judy in Kyoto
Nanako Nakajima
6 The Gesture of Interweaving. A Look at the Landscape of Contemporary Dance in Brazil
Cristina F. Rosa
7 Deborah Hay's
Solo Performance Commissioning ProjectSusan Foster
8 From Curse to Cure through Performing the Contagious Body. Colonial and Postcolonial Dis/Continuities from Jean Rouch to Ousmane Sembène
Klaus-Peter Köpping
PART III
Movement
as Interweaving
9 Reggie Wilson and the Making of
Moses(es)Susan Manning
10 Black Swan of Trespass: Dramaturgies of Public Space
Paul Carter
11 The Inception of Yanomami Shamanic Initiation and the Movement of Parts
Evelyn Schuler & Alfredo Zea
PART IV
Unweavings
12 Border Control--Framing the Atypical Body. You say radical, I say conservative; you say inclusive, I say subversive . . .
Kaite O'Reilly
13 ReNaissance of the Orient
in Gustave Flaubert's "Hérodias". Interwoven movement patterns in Salome's Dance
Gabriele Brandstetter
14 Interweaving Dance Archives. Devadasis, Bayadères and Nautch Girls of 1838
Avanthi Meduri
15 The Contemplative Spectator. Seeing as a Mode of Stilling Mind
Navtej Johar
About the author
Gabriele Brandstetter is co-director of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" and Professor of Theater and Dance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Gerko Egert is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Applied Theater Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.
Holger Hartung is coordinator of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Summary
Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. This volume features an international team of scholars uniting to develop a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel, and mig
