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The Aging Body in Dance: A cross-cultural perspective

✍ Scribed by Nanako Nakajima, Gabriele Brandstetter

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Leaves
195
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

What does it mean to be able to move?

The Aging Body in Dance brings together leading scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds to investigate cultural ideas of movement and beauty, expressiveness and agility.

Contributors focus on Euro-American and Japanese attitudes towards aging and performance, including studies of choreographers, dancers and directors from Yvonne Rainer, Martha Graham, Anna Halprin and Roemeo Castellucci to Kazuo Ohno and Kikuo Tomoeda. They draw a fascinating comparison between youth-oriented Western cultures and dance cultures like Japan’s, where aging performers are celebrated as part of the country’s living heritage.

The first cross-cultural study of its kind, The Aging Body in Dance offers a vital resource for scholars and practitioners interested in global dance cultures and their differing responses to the world's aging population.

✦ Table of Contents

The Aging Body in Dance
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Introduction
Overview
Part I
The aching body in dance
Yvonne Rainer’s Convalescent Dance
Dance is a metaphor of life
The flower of old age
Part II Alternative danceability Dis/ability and Euro-American performance
The perverse satisfaction of gravity
Dancing the non/fictional body
Silent Rhythm
Bodies’ borderlands
Part III Aging and body politics in contemporary dance
Somatic politics
Old, weak, and invalid
Dance and aging
Part IV Perspectives of interweaving
Why are hands the last resort of the aging body in dance?
Yoshito Ohno’s Figures of Life
Index

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