Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place (New World Choreographies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137385669 ISBN 13: 9781137385666

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Synopsis

Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place extends the notion of the choreographic by highlighting the experiential condition of contemporary performance projects which enact place as action. It describes the kinaesthetic as a topological condition of choreographic dwelling where body-environment interactions produce platial efforts through their physical enactment of place place. The book simultaneously challenges and embraces discussions of embodiment from philosophy, geography and psychology, shifting the attention from the dancer, dance and dancing to that of the dynamic architectures of affect, agency and affordance. This paradigmatic shift in thinking the choreographic is brought to life in this collection with writings from artist-scholars and movement practitioners from dance, music, performance, urban studies, circus, interaction design and Parkour.

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Review:

“In this incisive and thought-provoking publication, Schiller and Rubidge steer a wide-reaching selection of essays that expand on ways of reconsidering the choreographic. Challenging conventional notions of how the choreographic operates and performs, this collection is a timely contribution to theorizing the concept of choreography in the wake of the ‘affective turn’. ... Schiller and Rubidge’s Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place serves as an important compass in the writing of choreographic evolution and its interdisciplinary reach.” (Michelle Man, Theatre and Performance Design, Vol. 3 (1-2), June, 2017)

About the Author:

Gretchen Schiller is a Canadian choreographer who works in the area of screendance, participatory installations and contemporary choreography. She is Professor of Arts de la scène at Stendhal University Grenoble, France, and director of the Maison de la Création. Her artworks have toured internationally and received prizes. Her publications can be found in French, English and Asian dance and media journals such as Performance and Technology, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media and Leonardo MIT press. 
 
Sarah Rubidge is Professor Emerita (Dance) at the University of Chichester, UK, and a digital choreographer and writer. Her participatory installations have been presented internationally and nationally. Recent publications include chapters in books such as Dance Spaces (2013), Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader (2009) and Performance and Technology (2007), and articles in journals such as Choreographic Practices and Dégres.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1137385669
• ISBN 13: 9781137385666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255
• Editor: Schiller G., Rubidge S.