Dance and Silence: In Conversation
- Editor: Artpradid, Vipavinee
- Editor: Johnson, Petra
Dance and Silence: In Conversation
- Editor: Artpradid, Vipavinee
- Editor: Johnson, Petra
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About
The age of humans has gotten increasingly loud in terms of literal sound and environmental impact. Recognising silence as a disappearing ontological value, there is grief around our loss, but there is also a greater desire for opportunities to experience silence in its various diverse forms.
This book explores the critical dynamics of silence within choreography, performance and composition, comprising a series of conversations with researchers and practitioners, including choreographer Rosemary Lee, architect Richard Dougherty, architectural historian Pérez-Gómez, Natural Horn player Isaac Shieh, neuroscientist Tony Steffert and drummer and aerialist Jonny Leitch.
These conversations:
- question what has been silenced through the immobilisation of our bodies through movement-saving technologies;
- discover points of convergence through silence in seemingly separate and unrelated physical, conceptual and philosophical spaces;
- examine neglected intelligence and marginalised ways of knowing of gesture and movement
Ultimately, we come to see how dance, embodied modes of inquiry and corporeal-based understandings within socio-cultural and ecological contexts can propose pathways in the absence of sound.
Contents
- LIST OF FIGURES
- PRELUDE
- CURATORIAL INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERSTITIAL PAGES
- PREAMBLE
- FIRST MOVEMENT:
- COMING BACK: GEOMETRY AND DANCE – (with Alberto Pérez-Gómez, McGill University, Canada)
- Second Movement:
- Meandering through the gestural shapes of music: Hands and Sound (with Isaac Shieh, Royal Academy of Music, London, UK)
- Third Movement: (with Louisa Petts)
- Moving language and territory through signing: Hands and Corporeal Hearing (with Richard Dougherty)
- Intermission
- Reflections on Outside of SpeecH
- Fourth Movement: How the human body occupies (with Jonny Leitch)
- Fifth Movement: The baseline or ‘you try and get some rest’ (with Tony Steffert)
- Sixth Movement: Recapitulation Silence as a Landing Place (with Rosemary Lee, Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, UK)
- Concluding Remarks
- INDEX
