The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory

✍ Scribed by Project Muse.;Bissell, Bill;Haviland, Linda Caruso

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Series: Book collections on Project MUSE.; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Film Theater and Performing Arts
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Top scholars and artists theorize the body as a crucible of knowledge.;Introduction : a body comparable / Bill Bissell and Linda Caruso Haviland -- Considering the body as archive / Linda Caruso Haviland -- Bodied knowing : introduction / Linda Caruso Haviland -- Everyone has something to tell / Alain Platel -- Stalking embodied knowledge-then what? / Tomie Hahn -- The sensing and knowing body : choreographing action and feeling / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Use me / Meg Stuart -- A body-mind centering(r) approach to movement through embodiment / Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen -- Pleasure / Ralph Lemon -- Slow / Ralph Lemon -- Memory, history, and retrieval : introduction / Linda Caruso Haviland -- Memory has its way with me / Barbara Dilley -- The body makes you remember / Ivo van Hove -- Touching history / Ann Cooper Albright -- My discovery of dance / Allegra Kent -- We dance what we remember : memory in perceiving and performing contemporary dance / Catherine J. Stevens -- The stories in our bodies / Emily Johnson -- The body in the archive : introduction Linda Caruso Haviland -- & we should live and be well : five artist statements, 1995-2007 / David Gordon -- The embodied performance of museum visiting : sacred temples or theaters of memory? / Laurajane Smith -- Sideways glances : painting and dancing / Sarah Crowner -- Leap before you look : honoring the libretto in Giselle and Apollo / Nancy Goldner -- Body as signifier / Patricia Hoffbauer -- Performing the archive : introduction Linda Caruso Haviland -- [Untitled] / Bebe Miller -- My body, the archive / Deborah Hay -- Choreographing somatic memories and spatial residues / Jayachandran Palazhy -- Tremulous histories / Jenn Joy -- Exit/exist-embodiment / Gregory Maqoma -- Afterlives and transformations : introduction / Linda Caruso Haviland -- Pavilion of secrets / Marcia B. Siegel -- Archiving Indeterminate systems of ecosystems and improvisational dance strategies / Jennifer Monson -- Them : recombinant aesthetics of restaging experimental performance / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- New bodies, new architecture / Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim -- Choreographic angelology / Andre Lepecki.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction : a body comparable / Bill Bissell and Linda Caruso Haviland --
Considering the body as archive / Linda Caruso Haviland --
Bodied knowing : introduction / Linda Caruso Haviland --
Everyone has something to tell / Alain Platel --
Stalking embodied knowledge-then what? / Tomie Hahn --
The sensing and knowing body : choreographing action and feeling / Juhani Pallasmaa --
Use me / Meg Stuart --
A body-mind centering(r) approach to movement through embodiment / Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen --
Pleasure / Ralph Lemon --
Slow / Ralph Lemon --
Memory, history, and retrieval : introduction / Linda Caruso Haviland --
Memory has its way with me / Barbara Dilley --
The body makes you remember / Ivo van Hove --
Touching history / Ann Cooper Albright --
My discovery of dance / Allegra Kent --
We dance what we remember : memory in perceiving and performing contemporary dance / Catherine J. Stevens --
The stories in our bodies / Emily Johnson --
The body in the archive : introduction Linda Caruso Haviland --
& we should live and be well : five artist statements, 1995-2007 / David Gordon --
The embodied performance of museum visiting : sacred temples or theaters of memory? / Laurajane Smith --
Sideways glances : painting and dancing / Sarah Crowner --
Leap before you look : honoring the libretto in Giselle and Apollo / Nancy Goldner --
Body as signifier / Patricia Hoffbauer --
Performing the archive : introduction Linda Caruso Haviland --
[Untitled] / Bebe Miller --
My body, the archive / Deborah Hay --
Choreographing somatic memories and spatial residues / Jayachandran Palazhy --
Tremulous histories / Jenn Joy --
Exit/exist-embodiment / Gregory Maqoma --
Afterlives and transformations : introduction / Linda Caruso Haviland --
Pavilion of secrets / Marcia B. Siegel --
Archiving Indeterminate systems of ecosystems and improvisational dance strategies / Jennifer Monson --
Them : recombinant aesthetics of restaging experimental performance / Thomas F. DeFrantz --
New bodies, new architecture / Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim --
Choreographic angelology / Andre Lepecki.

✦ Subjects

Dance--Philosophy;Human body (Philosophy);;Dance -- Philosophy

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