Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance

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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 an
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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"This is an urgently needed book - as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a thoroughly compelling argument." - Andre Lepecki, New York University

"May well prove to be one of Susan Foster's most important works." - Ramsay Burt, De Montford University, UK

What do we feel when we watch dancing? Do we "dance along" inwardly? Do we sense what the dancer's body is feeling? Do we imagine what it might feel like to perform those same moves? If we do, how do these responses influence how we experience dancing and how we derive significance from it?

Choreographing Empathy challenges the idea of a direct psychophysical connection between the body of a dancer and that of their observer. In this groundbreaking investigation, Susan Foster argues that the connection is in fact highly mediated and influenced by ever-changing sociocultural mores.

Foster examines the relationships between three central components in the experience of watching a dance - the choreography, the kinesthetic sensations it puts forward, and the empathetic connection that it proposes to viewers. Tracing the changing definitions of choreography, kinesthesia, and empathy from the 1700s to the present day, she shows how the observation, study, and discussion of dance have changed over time. Understanding this development is key to understanding corporeality and its involvement in the body politic.

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