Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance: Unbecoming Rhythms

Contents

• Introduction 4
• Only Concepts? Dance and the conceptual 5
• Only live? Dance and the ephemeral 8
• Shaping time from within: rhythm and dance 10
• Going against the flow: rhythm in contemporary dance 12
• Dance-philosophy: an infinite conversation. 17
• Articulation of the chapters 19
• 2. Rhythm is life: rhythm in German Ausdruckstanz. 23
• The 'doctrine of energy' and the rise of fatigue. 24
• The birth of Koerperkultur: Dalcroze's Eurhythmics. 28
• Rhythm in the beginning of the twentieth century: Rudolf Bode and Rudolf Laban. 29
• Intermezzo: The evolution of the concept rhythm in Bergson's oeuvre. 36
• Ausdruckstanz and Koerperkultur: Mary Wigman's ecstatic rhythms. 38
• Intermezzo: German Ausdruckstanz and the body politics during the Nazi era. 43
• Conclusion: Becoming rhythm, becoming life. 44
• 3. Dancing in the meantime: syncopation in the work of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion. 47
• On the fence: rhythm and milieu in Deleuze and Guattari's Of the Refrain. 51
• Playing apart: rhythm and syncopation. 56
• Intermezzo: Transatlantic and the resistance of roots. 61
• Following the rhythm: the relation between rhythms and patterns. 64
• Conclusion: Syncopation's trouble. 66
• 4. Still dance: hesitation in Ivana Muller's While We Were Holding It Together 69
• Intermezzo: dance and movement, a modernist love affair 72
• Still-act: the tableau vivant 73
• Time as hesitation: Bergson and the suspension of time. 75
• Intermezzo: the still, or the cinematographic experience of modern times. 79
• The space of elsewhere: Bachelard's poetic imagination. 82
• Intermezzo: imagination, intuition and the task of the artist 87
• Conclusion: What about tomorrow.. 90
• 5. Stumbling through time: repetition in the work of Mette Edvardsen. 93
• The logic of the phrase: repetition in Accumulation and Dance. 98
• Stumbling through language: repetition in Black and No title. 103
• Running Out of Time: Performing the Eternal Return. 107
• Intermezzo: The triple murder of the eternal return, or Deleuze thinks death. 112
• Conclusion: The amnesiac witness. 113
• 6. Dark Utopia, Or Sleeping Through Marten Spangberg's Natten . 116
• Dancing with myself 118
• Spending the Natten together. 120
• Conclusion: Sushi or sashimi 123
• 7. Stealing time: Rhythmic operations in a society of control 125
• Bibliography. 152