Ehrenberg, ShantelUnknown
Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) (eng) English9783030734039Cognitive studies in literature and performance1st ed.STAGE MANAGEMENT; UnknownKinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses. Expanding on the concept of a ‘kinaesthetic mode of attention’ leads to discussion of some of the key values and practices which nurture and develop this mode in contemporary dance. Zooming in on entanglements with video self-images in dance practice provides further insights regarding kinaesthesia’s historicised polarisation with the visual. It thus provides opportunities to dwell on and reconsider reflections, opening up to a set of playful yet disruptive diffractions inherent in the process of becoming a contemporary dancer, particularly amongst an increasingly complex landscape of visual and theoretical technologies.
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1 online resource (xi, 280 p.)Unknownill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Chapter 1: Introducing, situating, positioning(s)-
Chapter 2: Illuminating dancers' kinaesthetic experience --
Chapter 3: A Kinaesthetic Mode of Attention --
Chapter 4: Practices and values which develop and nurture a kinaesthetic mode of attention --
Chapter 5: Kinaesthesia and video self-image(s): foregrounding the imagination --
Chapter 6 Concluding Diffractions | Diffracting Conclusions.