Angelin Preljocaj's Empty Moves (2014) and Transmodern Dance History. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Farrugia-Kriel, Kathrina
• Is Part Of: Dance chronicle. Volume 40:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 99
• Page End: 114
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Angelin Preljocaj -- Empty Moves -- transmodernism -- postmodern dance -- French contemporary dance; Dance -- Periodicals; Dancing; 792.805
• DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2017.1273689
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0147-2526

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article, I examine the choreographic practices associated with French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj and his work, Empty Moves (Parts I, II & III), a three-part work informed by artistic hybridity and alterity. Through choreographic examples from Empty Moves, I examine the nascent state of transmodernism in dance, an artistic condition that implies a web of complex connections and interactions among dance histories and choreographic practices. In rethinking postmodern dance histories in the wake of recent theories of transmodernism, I conclude by offering a new framework for a dance paradigm and a reconsideration of selected canons of dance histories.