Screen LibraryTransmissions in Dance : Contemporary Staging Practices /
This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission, translation and transformation, it features deep...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64873-6 |
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This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission, translation and transformation, it features deep insights into selected dances from directors, performers, and close associates of choreographers. The breadth of practice on offer illustrates the capacity of dance as a medium to adapt successfully to diverse approaches and, further, that there is a growing appetite amongst audiences for seeing |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XVII, 231 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319648736 |
| Index Number: | PN1560 |
| CLC: | J709 |
| Contents: | 1. Introductions; Lesley Main -- 2. Transmission: from archive to production. Re-imagining Laban - contemporizing the past, envisioning the future; Alison Curtis-Jones -- 3. Impure transmissions; traditions of modern dance across historical and geographical boundaries; Fabi n Barba -- 4. Performing history: Wind Tossed (1936), Natural Movement and the hyper-historian; Maria Salgado Llopis -- 5. The Transmission Translation--Transformation of Doris Humphrey s Two Ecstatic Themes (1931); Lesley Main -- 6. Transmission as Process and Power in Graham s Chronicle (1936); Kim Jones -- 7. Transmitt |