Transmissions in Dance: Contemporary Staging Practices

✍ Scribed by Lesley Main (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission, translation and transformation, it features deep insights into selected dances from directors, performers, and close associates of choreographers. The breadth of practice on offer illustrates the capacity of dance as a medium to adapt successfully to diverse approaches and, further, that there is a growing appetite amongst audiences for seeing dances from the near and far past. This study spans a century, from Rudolf Laban’s Dancing Drumstick (1913) to Robert Cohan’s Sigh (2015), and examines works by Mary Wigman, Madge Atkinson (Natural Movement), Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, Yvonne Rainer and Rosemary Butcher, an eclectic mix that crosses time and borders.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Introductions (Lesley Main)....Pages 1-9
Transmission: From Archive to Production Re-imagining Laban—Contemporizing the Past, Envisioning the Future (Alison Curtis-Jones)....Pages 11-35
Impure Transmissions: Traditions of Modern Dance Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries (Fabián Barba)....Pages 37-59
Performing History: Wind Tossed (1936), Natural Movement and the Hyper-Historian (Maria Salgado Llopis)....Pages 61-83
The Transmission–Translation–Transformation of Doris Humphrey’s Two Ecstatic Themes (1931) (Lesley Main)....Pages 85-107
Transmission as Process and Power in Graham’s Chronicle (1936) (Kim Jones)....Pages 109-141
Transmitting Trio A (1966): The Relations and Sociality of an Unspectacular Dance (Sara Wookey)....Pages 143-161
Silent Transformations in Choreography—Making Over Time: Rosemary Butcher’s Practice of ‘Looking Back and Ahead’ (Stefanie Sachsenmaier)....Pages 163-188
The Living Cultural Heritage of Robert Cohan (Paul R. W. Jackson)....Pages 189-226
Back Matter ....Pages 227-231

✦ Subjects

Dance

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