Anna Leon
Author
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the first to consider expanded choreography from a trans-historical perspective. Through case studies on different periods of European dance history - ranging from Renaissance dance to William Forsythe's choreographic objects and from...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Dancing is bringing things to life - it is embodied life in relation of many other life forms, materials, and substances that move, transform, and appear in flux in an animated cosmos. This book brings together artists' and performance scholars' perspectives of the world of materials, organic and artificial, human and non-human. Their essays and artworks propose a renewed attention to properties of materials, to perceptions of what moves and can be...