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Undisciplining Dance in Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles Unabridged edition


Undisciplining Dance in Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles Unabridged edition

Hardback by Brown, Carol; Longley, Alys

Undisciplining Dance in Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles

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ISBN:
9781527506213
Publication Date:
16 Mar 2018
Edition/language:
Unabridged edition / English
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages:
297 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 26 May 2024
Undisciplining Dance in Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles

Description

If much of what we teach and come to know from within the disciplinary regime of Dance Studies is founded on a certain kind of mastery, what scope is there to challenge, criticize and undo this knowledge from within the academy, as well as through productive encounters with its margins?This volume contributes to a growing discourse on the potential of dance and dancers to affect change, politics and situational awareness, as well as to traverse disciplinary boundaries. It 'undisciplines' academic thinking through its organisation into 'movements' and 'stumbles', reinforcing its theme through its structure as well as its content, addressing contemporary dance and performance practices and pedagogies from a range of research perspectives and registers.Turbulent and vertiginous events on the world stage necessitate new ways of thinking and acting. This book makes strides towards a new kind of research which creates alternative modes for perceiving, experiencing and making. Through writings and images, its contributions offer different perspectives on how to rethink disciplinarity through choreographic practices, somatics, a reimagining of dance techniques, indigenous ontologies, choreopolitics, critical dance pedagogies and visual performance languages.

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