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Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance 1st ed. 2019


Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance 1st ed. 2019

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Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance

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ISBN:
9783030276829
Publication Date:
27 Nov 2020
Edition/language:
1st ed. 2019 / English
Publisher:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Pages:
232 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 29 May 2024
Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance

Description

The first monograph on the work of British choreographer Jonathan Burrows, this book examines his artistic practice and poetics as articulated through his choreographic works, his writings and his contributions to current performance debates. It considers the contexts, principles and modalities of his choreography, from his early pieces in the 1980s to his latest collaborative projects, providing detailed analyses of his dances and reflecting on his unique choreomusical partnership with composer Matteo Fargion. Known for its emphasis on gesture and humour, and characterised by compositional clarity and rhythmical patterns, Burrows' artistic work takes the language of choreography to its limits and engages in a paradoxical, and hence transformative, relationship with dance's historical and normative structures. Exploring the ways in which Burrows and Fargion's poetics articulates movement, performative presence and the collaborative process in a 'minor' register, this study conceptualises the work as a politically compelling practice that destabilises major traditions from a minoritarian position.

Contents

1.Dance and/as poiesis, poetry, poetics.- 2.Resisting from within: Dance canons and their deterritorialisation.- 3.Reduction, repetition, returns: The trouble of minimalism.- 4.Rhythm as friendship: Movement, music and Matteo.- 5.Duets and (self-)portraits: Choreographing the im/personal.- 6.Choreographies of plurality: Rethinking collaboration and collectivity.- 7.Towards a politics of poetry, gesture and laughter.

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