Dancing with Georges Perec
eBook - ePub

Dancing with Georges Perec

Embodying Oulipo

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dancing with Georges Perec

Embodying Oulipo

About this book

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936–1983) to dance.

"Dancing" addresses art-making parallels and their personal and sociocultural contexts, including Perec's childhood loss of his parents in the Holocaust and its repercussions in the significance of the body, everydayness, space, and attention permeating his work. This book, emerging from the author Leslie Satin's perspective as a dancer and scholar, links Perec's concerns with those of dance and demonstrates that Perec's work has implications for dance and how we think about it. Moreover, it is framed as a performative autobiographical enactment of the author's relationship to Perec, periodically linking their written, danced, and imagined lives.

This exploration will be of great interest to dancers, dance scholars, and dance students interested in contemporary experimental dance and contemporary dance.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Half Title
  5. Series Page
  6. Title Page
  7. Copyright Page
  8. Dedication
  9. Table of Contents
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Foreword
  12. 1 Dancing with Georges Perec: An Introduction
  13. 2 George Perec’s Radical Fractures: Engaging Autobiography
  14. 3 Looking, Listening, Listing: Attention and the Infra-Ordinary
  15. 4 Bodies in Space, Bodies as Space
  16. 5 Ludic Literature: Oulipo and Rethinking Composition
  17. 6 What is Dance? Radical Acts of Embodiment
  18. 7 Dancing into the Twenty-First Century with Georges Perec
  19. Index