Involuntary Motion: The Somatics of Refugee Performance

ISBN-13: 9780367490041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 142 str.

Jeff Kaplan

Opis

Involuntary Motion contributes to the study of refugee flight by using movement as a lens to explore problems in refugee performance and understand the experience of bodies in motion. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance, dance and politics.

Spis treści

Introduction 

1. Movement Initiation—Dance and Refugee Performance 

2. Space, Time, and Energy—Revisiting Arendt: Spaces of Disappearance  

3. Trace Forms—The Non-Hero’s Journey  

4. Effort/Shape—Monstrosity and Refugee Bodies (Undocumented Zombies and Sea Creature)s  

5. Bodies and Writing—Snap Judgement: Two Photographs of Writing on Immigrant Bodies  

Epilogue: Is Stillness (still) a Right?

O autorze

Jeff Kaplan is Assistant Professor of Dance & Theatre at Manhattanville College, USA.