Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. SOCIAL REALMS
5. Dancing Politics: Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography 17
6. Between Intervention and Utopia: Dance Politics 29
7. Dance and Work: The Aesthetic and Political Potential of Dance 47
8. The Collective That Isn’t One 61
9. HYBRID SPHERES
10. Jérôme Bel and Myself: Gender and Intercultural Collaboration 73
11. Transnationalism and Contemporary African Dance: Faustin Linyekula 83
12. Flee(t)ing Dances! Initiatives for the Preservation and Communication of Intangible World Heritage in Museums 93
13. The Bluff of Contemporary Dance 107
14. ART WORLDS
15. Transcription – Materiality – Signature. Dancing and Writing between Resistance and Excess 119
16. Autobiography and the Coulisses: Narrator, Dancer, Spectator 137
17. Dance Images. Dance Films as an Example of the Representation and Production of Movement 149
18. Against the Beat. Music, Dance and the Image in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up 163
19. DIGITAL WORLDS – PROCESSING BODIES
20. Gesture Capture: Paradigms in Interactive Music/ Dance Systems 183
21. Tables of Weights and Measures: Architecture and the Synchronous Objects Project 195
22. Synchronous Objects, Choreographic Objects, and the Translation of Dancing Ideas 207
23. WORKING PRINCIPLES
24. Communicating, Distilling, Catalyzing. On the Creation of Dance Congress Worlds 225
25. Situational Worlds. Complicity as a Model of Collaboration 235
26. Protocols of Encounter: On Dance Dramaturgy 247
27. Notes on Contributors 257
28. Backmatter 264