ABSTRACT

Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept of intercultural dance performances, but through its innovative approach also calls attention to the specific qualities of "interweaving" as a form of movement itself.

Divided into four sections, this volume features an international team of scholars together developing a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel and migration in and beyond dance.

chapter |21 pages

Movements of interweaving

An introduction

part I|83 pages

Dancing, traveling, migrating

chapter 1|21 pages

Akram Khan

The creative confusion of the migrating body

chapter 2|26 pages

Whale’s tails and rose petals

Tanztheater’s souvenir bodies and Butoh’s Rwanda

chapter 3|20 pages

Hashtag Mitimiti

Reciprocities of indigenized dance

part II|90 pages

Corporealities

chapter 5|21 pages

Throwing the aging body into the fight

Raimund Hoghe’s An Evening with Judy in Kyoto

chapter 6|25 pages

The gesture of interweaving

A look at the landscape of contemporary dance in Brazil

chapter 8|23 pages

From curse to cure through performing the contagious body

Colonial and postcolonial dis/continuities from Jean Rouch to Ousmane Sembène

part III|58 pages

Movement as interweaving

chapter 10|21 pages

Black swan of trespass

Dramaturgies of public space

part IV|88 pages

Unweavings

chapter 12|24 pages

Border control—framing the atypical body

You say radical, I say conservative; you say inclusive, I say subversive…

chapter 13|20 pages

Re-naissance of the orient in Gustave Flaubert’s “Hérodias”

Interwoven movement patterns in Salome’s dance 1

chapter 14|22 pages

Interweaving dance archives

Devadasis, Bayadères, and Nautch girls of 1838

chapter 15|22 pages

The contemplative spectator

Seeing as a mode of stilling mind