Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance

ISBN-13: 9780415596558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 286 str.

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What do we feel when we watch dancing? Do we 'dance along' inwardly? Do we sense what the dancer's body is feeling? If we do, how do these responses influence how we experience dancing and how we derive significance from it? This book challenges the idea of a direct psychphysical connection between the body of a dancer and that of their observer.

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Acknowledgements  Introducing Choreographing Empathy  Chapter 1 – Choreography  Inventories and Taxonomies  Traveling and Disseminating  Authorship, Narrative, and Technique  Revealing and Testifying  Making and Collaborating  Chapter 2 - Kinesthesia  Chorographies and Anatomies  Trembling and Orienting  Hardening and Picturing  Encompassing and Expressing  Synthesizing and Simulating  Chapter 3 – Empathy  Taken Unawares by Surprising Magnetisms  Surveying the Scene, Nervously  Domesticating and Othering  Identifying and Emoting  Resonating and Predicting  Chapter 4 – Choreographing Empathy  Grounding and Remembering  Locating and Surveilling  Engendering and Evaluating  Downloading and Accessorizing  Choreographing Empathy

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Susan Leigh Foster is professor of choreography, history and theories of the body at UCLA. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the National Endowment of Humanities, and the Rockefeller and Jerome Foundations. Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., Dance, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. Anthropology, Swarthmore College. She has created several solo concerts which have toured the United States, Canada and Europe.