Touching and Being Touched: Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance and Movement

✍ Scribed by Gabriele Brandstetter (editor); Gerko Egert (editor); Sabine Zubarik (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 332
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Touch is a fundamental element of dance. The (time) forms and contact zones of touch are means of expression both of self-reflexivity and the interaction of the dancers. Liberties and limits, creative possibilities and taboos of touch convey insights into the ‘aisthesis’ of the different forms of dance: into their dynamics and communicative structure, as well as into the production and regulation of affects.
Touching and Being Touched assembles seventeen interdisciplinary papers focusing on the question of how forms and practices of touch are connected with the evocation of feelings. Are these feelings evoked in different ways in tango, Contact improvisation, European and Japanese contemporary dance? The contributors to this volume (dance, literature, and film scholars as well as philosophers and neuroscientists) provide in-depth discussions of the modes of transfer between touch and being touched. Drawing on the assumptions of various theories of body, emotion, and senses, how can we interpret the processes of tactile touch and of being touched emotionally? Is there a specific spectrum of emotions activated during these processes (within both the spectator and the dancer)? How can the relationship of movement, touch, and emotion be analyzed in relation to kinesthesia and empathy?

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Touching and Being Touched. Motion, Emotion, and Modes of Contact
I Touch
Rühren, Berühren, Aufruhr. Stirring, Stirring up, Uprising
Figure, Plasticity, Affect
Just Like That. William Forsythe – Between Movement and Language
Movements of Touch in MAYBE FOREVER
Cold Burn (Teion Yakedo). On Touch in Contemporary Japanese Performance
The Fault Lines of Touching
II Kinesthesia
On ‘Inner Touch’ and the Moving Body. Aisthêsis, Kinaesthesis, and Aesthetics
Choreographies With and Without a Choreographer. Intuitive and Intentional Corporeal Interactions
“Listening”. Kinesthetic Awareness in Contemporary Dance
Do You Feel the Same Way Too?
Empathy, Contagion and Affect. The Role of Kinesthesia in Watching Dance
III Empathy
Affective Modulations in Politics, Theory and Art
Is the Movement of the Filmic Image a Sign of Vitality?
Feeling In and Out. Contact Improvisation and the Politics of Empathy
“Touch Me If You Can”. The Practice of Close Embrace as a Facilitator of Kinesthetic Empathy in Argentine Tango
Lost and Found in Interpretation. Senses and Emotions in Contexts of Argentine Tango
Dancing Tango. The Weave of an Emotional, Corporal and Social Network
Notes on Contributors

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