Choreographing Dirt - Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene

This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance.

List of contents

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Biogeocultography
1. Performative Taphonomy: Excavating and Exhuming the Past in Suzan-Lori Parks's The America Play
2. Staging Extraction: Peat's Vitality in Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring
3. A Dirty Pas De Deux: Dirt, Skin, and "Trans-corporeality" in Eveoke Dance Theatre's Las Mariposas
4. Mycelium in Motion: Choreographing Care in Iván-Daniel Espinosa's Messengers Divinos
Conclusion: Moving with the Trouble
Index

About the author

Angenette Spalink is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University.

Product details

• Authors: Angenette Spalink
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9780367758431
• ISBN: 978-0-367-75843-1
• No. of pages: 104
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Dance, NATURE / General, NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, The arts: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, ART / Conservation & Preservation, Anthropology, PERFORMING ARTS / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Popular Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, ART / Performance, ART / Environmental & Land Art, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, Applied ecology, Theatre Studies, environmental science, engineering & technology, Botany & plant sciences, Performance Art, Agricultural science, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Botany and plant sciences, The arts: general topics, Choreography;Dance;Ecology