Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Dance [and] Theory. Introduction 11
4. Dancing and Theorizing and Theorizing Dancing 19
5. ARTISTIC RESEARCH
6. Artistic Research: Between Experiment and Presentation 35
7. A Few Remarks about Research in Dance and Performance or – The Production of Problems 45
8. Knowledge and Collective Praxis 51
9. It does not matter or The Artist Out (of the Picture) 63
10. Artistic Research between Dance and Theory – A Response in Six Questions 69
11. References 75
12. PANEL AESTHETICS
13. Aesthetic Experience 81
14. The Question of the Aesthetic 89
15. The Resistance to Dance Theory. Being-With, the Aesthetic Event 97
16. Beautiful Affects in Choreography 103
17. Intertwinings: The Dis/Positions of Dance Aesthetics 107
18. Unexpected Horizons of Meaning 115
19. Parallel Universes and Aesthetic Dis/Balance: Theory Interrupted, Dance Distracted 119
20. References 129
21. LECTURE
22. Dance Theory as a Practice of Critique 137
23. PANEL POLITICS
24. Dance and Politics 153
25. Pitfalls of ‘the Political.’ Politization as an Alternative Tool for Dance Analysis? 159
26. The Politics of Time 167
27. Contemporary Dance and the Critical Ontology of Actuality 173
28. Geo-Politics, Dissensus, and Dance Citizenship: The Case of South Asian Dance in Britain 177
29. Resilient Bodies, Stirred. Political Anecdotes from the Field of Contemporary Choreography 183
30. Remarks Concerning the Ontology of Dance 187
31. References 191
32. LECTURE
33. Dis/Balances. Dance and Theory 197
34. PANEL ARCHIVES
35. Steps and Gaps: Curatorial Perspectives on Dance and Archives 213
36. Body, Archive 219
37. The Constructive Compromise 223
38. Dance/Archive/Exhibition? Moving between Worlds 227
39. The Archive in Motion 231
40. “Mal d’Archive” – in a Different Sense than Jacques Derrida’s 235
41. Leaving and Pursuing Traces ‘Archive’ and ‘Archiving’ in a Dance Context 241
42. References 247
43. PANEL NEXT GENERATION
44. Thoughts on the Now in the Future 253
45. A Relational Perspective on Dance and Theory – Implications for the Teaching of Dance Studies 265
46. dé-position. Or How to Move in(to) the Future? 271
47. Embryology as Choreography 277
48. Hypothesis Number Nine: The Image Is an Organ 283
49. What’s ‘next’? 287
50. In the Making. On the Generation of Movement between Dance and Theory 291
51. An Institution Is only as Good as the People who Work there Can be. No? 297
52. References 309
53. Notes on Contributors 313