Transmissions in Dance
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Transmissions in Dance

Contemporary Staging Practices

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Transmissions in Dance

Contemporary Staging Practices

About this book

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission, translation and transformation, it features deep insights into selected dances from directors, performers, and close associates of choreographers. The breadth of practice on offer illustrates the capacity of dance as a medium to adapt successfully to diverse approaches and, further, that there is a growing appetite amongst audiences for seeing dances from the near and far past. This study spans a century, from Rudolf Laban's Dancing Drumstick (1913) to Robert Cohan's Sigh (2015), and examines works by Mary Wigman, Madge Atkinson (Natural Movement), Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, Yvonne Rainer and Rosemary Butcher, an eclectic mix that crosses time and borders.

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Yes, you can access Transmissions in Dance by Lesley Main in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Dance. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319648729
eBook ISBN
9783319648736
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Dance

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. List of Figures
  6. Chapter 1 Introductions
  7. Chapter 2 Transmission: From Archive to Production Re-imagining Laban—Contemporizing the Past, Envisioning the Future
  8. Chapter 3 Impure Transmissions: Traditions of Modern Dance Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries
  9. Chapter 4 Performing History: Wind Tossed (1936), Natural Movement and the Hyper-Historian
  10. Chapter 5 The Transmission–Translation–Transformation of Doris Humphrey’s Two Ecstatic Themes (1931)
  11. Chapter 6 Transmission as Process and Power in Graham’s Chronicle (1936)
  12. Chapter 7 Transmitting Trio A (1966): The Relations and Sociality of an Unspectacular Dance
  13. Chapter 8 Silent Transformations in Choreography—Making Over Time: Rosemary Butcher’s Practice of ‘Looking Back and Ahead’
  14. Chapter 9 The Living Cultural Heritage of Robert Cohan
  15. Index