The Aging Body in Dance: A cross-cultural perspective

Contents

• Introduction, Gabriele Brandstetter and Nanako Nakajima
• Overview of the Aging Body in Dance, Nanako Nakajima
• Section I: The Aging Body in the late 20th century: American Postmodern Dance, German Dance, and Japanese Dance
• Yvonne Rainer, The Aching Body in Dance
• Ramsay Burt, Yvonne Rainer's Convalescent Dance: On valuing ordinary, everyday, and unidealised bodily states in the context of the aging body in dance
• Johannes Odenthal, Der Tanz ist eine Metapher des Lebens (Dance is a Metaphor of Life)
• Tamotsu Watanabe, Flowers Blooming in the Time of Aging
• Section II: Alternative Dancability: Dis/Ability and Euro-American Performance
• Ann Cooper Albright, The Perverse Satisfaction of Gravity
• Jess Curtis, Dancing the Non/Fictional Body
• Kaite O'Reilly, SILENT RHYTHM: A Reflection on the aging, changing body, and sensory impairment as a source of creativity and inspiration
• Susanne Foellmer, Bodies' Borderlands: Right in the Middle. Dis/Abilities on Stage
• Section III: Aging and Body Politics in Contemporary Dance
• Petra Kuppers, Somatic Politics: Community Dance and Aging Dance
• Kikuko Toyama, Old, weak, and invalid: dance in inaction
• Janice Ross, Dance and Aging: Anna Halprin Dancing Eros at the End of Life
• Section IV: Perspectives of Interweaving
• Mark Franko, Why are Hands the Last Resort of the Aging Body in Dance? Notes on the Modernist Gesture and the Sublime
• Nanako Nakajima, Yoshito Ohno's Figures of Life