Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance
- Author: Perazzo Domm, Daniela
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Contents
- 1.Dance and/as poiesis, poetry, poeticsPoiesis as 'non-making': Weak Dance Strong Questions (2001)A po(i)etic(s) (of) danceFrom poetics to aesthetics and/as politicsPoetics as engaged writing Between canons and individuation: Positioning Jonathan Burrows'
- 2.Resisting from within: Dance canons and their deterritorialisationBallet, English folk, Rosemary Butcher and Judson Church: A historical accountThe paradox of the familiar in Hymns (1986-1988)Absurdity and de-/re-territorialisation in Stoics (1991)Inte
- 3.Reduction, repetition, returns: The trouble of minimalismBurrows' minimalist label: A critical divide Reconfigurations of minimalism in The Stop Quartet (1996)Dance and the real: Or, the po(i)etic potential of 'small things' Choreography's 'retroactive
- 4.Rhythm as friendship: Movement, music and MatteoSpacing and repetition: On poetry and partnershipDisproportion and dissymmetry in Speaking Dance (2006)Not-knowing and non-reciprocity in Cheap Lecture (2009) and The Cow Piece (2009)Rhythm and chaos in B
- 5.Duets and (self-)portraits: Choreographing the im/personalSingularity and plurality: A Choreographer's Handbook (2010)Deconstruction of the personal subject in Hands (1995)Duets beyond interlocution: Both Sitting Duet (2002) and The Quiet Dance (2005)I
- 6.Choreographies of plurality: Rethinking collaboration and collectivityGiving and stealing: 52 Portraits and a discovered communityAffective solidarity in Any Table Any Room (2017)Debunking mastery in Music For Lectures (2018)
- 7.Towards a politics of poetry, gesture and laughter