ABSTRACT
The concept of “interweaving performance cultures” describes phenomena and processes of artistic and cultural performances that cannot be traced back to a fixed origin or identity. By focusing on the processual and relational qualities of cultures, movement takes center stage. In this context, we deliberately define movement in its broadest sense: it can describe physical acts of traveling, dancing, or simply moving about, but also acts of transferring or translating concepts and ideas, i.e., movements of thought and philosophical as well as political movements.
The introduction gives an overview of the book’s four main areas of research: (1) Dancing, Traveling, Migrating, (2) Corporealities, (3) Movement as Interweaving, and (4) Unweaving. Presenting the main concepts of each section, the introduction frames each of the contributing articles as much as it foregrounds the relations between them.
By bringing together multiple perspectives present in the book, the chapter introduces its key theoretical aim: to explore the movements of interweaving active in dance as well as in other cultural practices.
