The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia
- Author: Sirotkina, Irina
- Author: Smith, Roger
This volume examines kinesthesia-the sense of movement-as a foundation of personal knowledge and cultural innovation, claiming primacy of kinesthesia over the other senses in that it affords... — More…
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements Note on text/translation List of abbreviations
- Introduction Movement and exuberant modernism
- Chapter 1 The sixth sense The senses Muscular feeling and kinaesthesia
- Chapter 2 Search for deeper knowledge The kinaesthetic intellect 'The higher sensitivity' Kinaesthesia and synaesthesia
- Chapter 3 Expression in dance The new dance The Russian Hellenes 'Ach, the devil take it, they're dancing here again'
- Chapter 4 Speaking movement The perfect language: Andrei Bely on gesture The dance-word: the creative union of Esenin and Duncan Word plasticity: the budetliane and the bare-footed
- Chapter 5 By 'the fourth way' The mystic arts From Dalcroze to Gurdjieff 'Presence'
- Chapter 6 Thinking with the body Mayakovsky dances the fox-trot Brik-dance Who thought up biomechanics?
- Chapter 7 Art as bodily knowledge Technique Kinaesthesia in culture Further reading Notes
- Index