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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy

  • Editor: Bresnahan, Aili
  • Editor: Camp, Julie Van
  • Editor: Farinas, Rebecca
  • Editor: Hanks, Craig

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Contents

  • List of Images
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements Introductions: Rebecca Farinas and Julie C. Van Camp, "Dance and Philosophy" Jeff Friedman and Aili Bresnahan, "Engagement: A Brief
  • Introduction to Dance Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Practice"
  • Part 1 : Philosophical practice as a dancing matter
  • Introduction Julie C. Van Camp, "Presenting an Engagement of Philosophy and Dance"
  • Chapter 1 : Kristopher G. Phillips, Megan Brunsvold Mercedes, "Teaching Dance and Philosophy to Non-Majors: The Integration of Movement Practices and Thought Experiments to Articulate Big Ideas"
  • Chapter 2 : Graham McFee, "Dance, Normativity and Action"
  • Chapter 3 : Julie C. Van Camp, "The Case of Mark Morris' Choreomusicality"
  • Chapter 4 : Kristin Boyce, "Thought, Dance and Aesthetic Reason"
  • Chapter 5 : Jane Carr, "The negotiation of significance in dance performance: a model for human interaction in the context of difference"
  • Chapter 6 : Barbara Montero, "Embodied Aesthetics and Proprioception"
  • Chapter 7 : Randall E. Auxier, "From Presentational Symbol to Dynamic Form: Ritual, Dance, Image"
  • Part II : Movement, Embodiment, and Temporality: The Distinctiveness of Dance
  • Introduction Edyta Kuzian, "Reflections on Practice"
  • Chapter 8 : Aili Bresnahan, "Interpretation in Dance Performance"
  • Chapter 9 : Edgar Vite, Professor and Diana Palacio, Professor, "A New Epistemology of Body and Movement in Modern and Contemporary Dance"
  • Chapter 10 : Rebecca Whitehurst, "The Phenomenology of Choreography, a Creative Embodied Encounter"
  • Chapter 11 : Richard Hall, "Discovering Collaboration in Dance"
  • Chapter 12 : Kaysie Seitz Brown, "Falling Up: An Explication of a Dance"
  • Chapter 13 : Louis A. Kavouras, "Early Floating in the Here and Now: The Radically Empirical Immediate Dance Theater of Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski"
  • Chapter 14 : David Leventhal, "From Patients to Dancers: a Case Study in Identity Transformation through the Arts"
  • Part III : Philosophy, Dance Traditions, and Everyday Experience
  • Introduction Stephen Davies, "Cross-currents in Philosophical and Dance Traditions"
  • Chapter 15 : Rebecca L. Farinas, "A New Universality: Pragmatic Symbols in Drawing and Dance"
  • Chapter 16 : Caroline Sutton Clark, "Groovy Bodies the 1970's Somatic Engagement in Dance"
  • Chapter 17 : Mehta Binita, "The Experience of Self-Transcendence: Traditional Hindu Perspective on Art and Dance"
  • Chapter 18 : Thomas F. DeFrantz, "Resisting the Universal: Black Dance, Aesthetics, and the Afterlives of Slavery"
  • Chapter 19 : Lakshmi Viswanathan,"The Landscape of the Arts"
  • Chapter 20 : Jeff Friedman, "Entanglement: A Multi-layered Morphology of Post-colonial African Philosophical Frameworks for Dance Aesthetics'
  • Chapter 21 : Paula J. Conlon, "Synergy and Syncretism at Creek Stomp Dance Grounds"
  • Chapter 22 : Addie Tsai, "The Mask which the Actor Wears is Apt to Become His True Face: How Jon Cryer Toes the Line Between Homage and Mimicry in Pretty in Pink's Ultimate Lipsync"
  • Part IV : How does dance move us via technology?
  • Introduction David Davies, "Extending Dance Performance"
  • Chapter 23 Arnold Berleant, "An Aesthetics of Video Dance"
  • Chapter 24 : Daniel Conrad, "Bodies at Rest: Four Still Images"
  • Chapter 25 : Ian T Heckman, "What Do We Lose to a Video"
  • Chapter 26 : Eliot Gray Fisher and Erica Gionfriddo, "Embodying Agency in the Human-Techno Entanglement"
  • Chapter 27 : L. Archer Porter, "Dance Performance: Disability or Cyborg Utopia? Ambivalent Readings of Marie Chouinard's "bODY rEMIX/gOLDBERG vARIATIONS"
  • Chapter 28 : Ana Baer Carrillo , "Considerations on Site-Specific Screendance Production"
  • Part V : Critical Reflections on Dance
  • Introduction Julia Beauquel, "Contemporary Dance Criticism"
  • Chapter 29 : Jonelle Seitz, "Ways of Looking: Association, Presence, Radicalism"
  • Chapter 30 : Henrique Rochelle,"Meneghini Structure, Form and Function of Dance Criticism and the Ways it Relates Audiences to Works of Art"
  • Chapter 31 : Joshua Hall, "Dancing with: a Theoretical Method of Poetic Social Justice"
  • Chapter 32 : Eric Mullis, "The Power of Political Dance: Representation, Mobilization, and Context Apparatus"
  • Chapter 33 : Meghan Quinlan, "The Economic Politics of Pleasure in Gaga"
  • Conclusion Questions for Richard Shusterman Selected
  • Bibliography