Touching and being touched : kinesthesia and empathy in dance and movement /

Movement and touch are fundamental elements of dance - both for the dancers on stage and the spectators who are touched and moved by the performance. The papers collected in this volume (by scholars from a range of disciplines including dance, literature, and film studies, as well as philosophy and...

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Other Authors: Brandstetter, Gabriele
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Touching and being touched : motion, emotion, and modes of contact
  • Rühren, Berühren, Aufruhr : stirring, stirring up, uprising / Jean-Luc Nancy
  • Figure, plasticity, affect / Niklaus Largier
  • Just like that : William Forsythe, between movement and language / Erin Manning and Brian Massumi
  • Movements of touch in Maybe forever / Gerko Egert
  • Cold burn (Telon Yakedo) : on touch in contemporary Japanese performance / Katherine Mezur
  • The Fault lines of touching / Krassimira Kruschkova
  • On "Inner touch" and the moving body : aisthêsis, kinaesthesis, and aesthetics / Mark Paterson
  • Choreographies with and without a choreographer : intuitive and intentional corporeal interactions / Hilge Landweser
  • "Listening" : kinesthetic awareness in contemporary dance / Gabriele Brandstetter
  • Do you feel the same way too? / Corinne Jola
  • Empathy, contagion and affect : the role of kinesthesia in watching dance / Dee Reyno-- Affective modulations in politics, theory and art / Marie-Luise Angerer
  • Is the movment of the filmic image a sign of vitality? / Robin Curtis
  • Feeling in and out : contact improvisation and the politics of empathy / Ann Cooper Albright
  • "Touch me if you can" : the practice of close embrace as a facilitator of kinesthetic empathy in Argentine tango / Sabine Zubarik
  • Lost and found in interpretation : senses and emotions in contexts of Argentine tango / Kornilia Chatzimasoura
  • Dancing tango : the weave of an emotional, corporal and social network / Sonia Abadi.