Moving Relation: Touch in Contemporary Dance

ISBN-13: 9781032089706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Gerko Egert

Opis

Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance, using a process-oriented notion of touch to reevaluate key concepts such as the body, rhythm, emotional expression, subjectivity and audience perception.

Spis treści

List of figures;  Introduction;  Tangent: approaches;  1. Moving relations, or: how touch dances;  2. Surging, fleeting, fading: affect and touch;  3. The autonomy of touch;  Tangent: nudity;  4. Body tremors;  5. I, a touch;  6. Meteorology of touch;  7. Touching touch;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Gerko Egert is a dance and theater studies scholar. He is postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen. His publications include Movements of Interweaving (co-edited with Brandstetter and Hartung, 2019) and "Choreographing the Weather – Weathering Choreography" (TDR, 2016).