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Kinaesthetic Empathy, Ethics and Care develops a philosophy of dance that highlights the psychological, aesthetic and ethical significance of dancer-viewer interaction in the moment of performance.
List of contents
Introduction to the English Translation
Translator's Preface
Foreword: On Gravity by Angelin Preljocaj
Introduction
PART I. THE AESTHETICS OF EMPATHYChapter 1. Prelude by way of example: Wim Vandekeybus's
BlushChapter 2. Kinaesthetic empathy and dance theory: fundamentals of a concept
Chapter 3. Aesthetic emotion in dance: kinaesthetic experience of the flesh
Chapter 4. Between bodies: transitional space and potential space - the space of play
Chapter 5. Playing with gravity
PART II. A QUESTION OF ETHICS: UP-HOLDING, SUPPORT AND CAREChapter 6. Holding and handling: reciprocal care
Chapter 7. Care for being
Chapter 8. Up-holding and care
Chapter 9. The ethical force of dance
Chapter 10. Maurice Hamington and the embodied epistemology of care
Chapter 11. From kinaesthetic empathy to care for the other: DV8's
The Cost of LivingPART III. HEALING THE SELF, REPAIRING THE FLESH: ¿ESIRE'S (RE-)DESIGNChapter 12. Dance and care of the self: from the weight of the flesh to an ethics of subjectivation
Chapter 13. Overture by way of a conclusion: movement as ethical restoration
About the author
Christine Leroy is a lecturer in philosophy, with a PhD in philosophy of art from Panthéon Sorbonne University (Paris I). She specialises in philosophy of the body and is a former dancer. Her publications include three monographs:
La Phénoménologie (2018),
Phénoménologie de la danse. De la chair à l'éthique (2021), of which this volume is the English translation, and
Le Corps (2022). She also co-edited with Chiara Palermo the anthology
Pesanteur et portance. Une éthique de la gravité (2022). Her work focuses on kinaesthetic empathy and the ethical dimension of experiences of gravity and movement in art and clinical practice.
Anna Pakes is a translator and researcher, specialising in philosophy of dance. Her authored publications have included
Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance (2020) and the co-edited anthology
Thinking through Dance: The Philosophy of Dance Performance and Practices (2013), as well as numerous articles and essays on a range of dance philosophical themes. Her translation work has included books by Frédéric Pouillaude and Noé Soulier, as well as essays for Paris 8 Danse in Translation. She has a background in dance practice, having trained at the Centre national de la danse contemporaine in Angers, France.
