Moving Relation Touch in Contemporary Dance
Moving Relation Touch in Contemporary Dance by Gerko Egert, published by Taylor & Francis on June 30, 2021, is a 168-page exploration of the concept of touch within contemporary dance. This book closely analyzes performances by notable choreographers, including Meg Stuart and William Forsythe, to investigate how touch influences movement, experience, and affect. Egert presents touch as an interplay of movements and relations of proximity, moving beyond mere bodily contact to delve into its broader implications in dance.
Readers will find a comprehensive examination that combines detailed performance analysis with theoretical insights from dance studies, philosophy, and cultural theory. Moving Relation engages with key concepts such as the body, rhythm, emotional expression, subjectivity, and audience perception, making it suitable for both scholars and practitioners in the fields of dance and performance studies. This edition offers a nuanced perspective on the role of touch in shaping contemporary dance practices.
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Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance.
By closely analyzing performances by well-known European and American choreographers such as Meg Stuart, William Forsythe, Xavier Le Roy, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot, this book investigates their usage of touch on the level of movement, experience and affect. Building on the proposition that touch is more than the moment of bodily contact, the author demonstrates the concept of touch as an interplay of movements and multiple relations of proximity. Egert employs both depth, using close descriptions and analyses of dance performances with theoretical investigations of touch, with breadth, working across the fields of performance and dance studies, philosophy and cultural theory.
Suitable for scholars and practitioners in the fields of dance and performance studies, Moving Relation uses a process-oriented notion of touch to reevaluate key concepts such as the body, rhythm, emotional expression, subjectivity and audience perception.
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