Performing temporality in contemporary European dance : unbecoming rhythms /: unbecoming rhythms. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonas Rutgeerts.
• Authors: Rutgeerts, Jonas
• 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 Körperkultur: 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 Körperkultur: 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 Müller’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 Spångberg’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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (214 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 792.8; Modern dance -- Europe -- Philosophy; Ephemeral art
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789387056; 9781789387049
• Related ISBNs: 9781789387032
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