Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance - Couverture souple

Pakes, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199988226 ISBN 13 : 9780199988228

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2020

Synopsis

Dance is often considered an ephemeral art, one that disappears nearly as soon as it materializes, leaving no physical object behind. Yet some dance practice involves people trying to embody something that exists before - and survives beyond - their particular acts of dancing. What exactly is that thing? And (how) do dances continue to exist when not performed? Anna Pakes seeks to answer these and related questions in this book, drawing on analytic philosophy of art to explore the metaphysics of dance making, performance and disappearance. Focusing on Western theater dance,Pakes also traces the different ways dances have been conceptualized across time, and what those historical shifts imply for the ontology of dance works.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anna Pakes is Reader in Dance Studies at University of Roehampton, where she specializes in philosophy of dance, especially analytic philosophical approaches and themes. She is a former dancer and choreographer, co-editor of the anthology Thinking through Dance, English translator of Frédéric Pouillaude's Unworking Choreography (OUP, 2017), and winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics (2018).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199988226
• ISBN 13: 9780199988228
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Oxford University Press; https://corp.oup.com/; ; WMF Platz 1; Geislingen/Steige; Baden-W?rttemberg; 73312; Allemagne