Full Description
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device, the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory, pedagogy, theory of history, reconstruction as a methodology, testimony and witnessing, theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature, and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.
Contents
Contents
1. Introduction: The Power of Recall in A Post-Ephemeral Era
Mark Franko
Phenomenology of the Archive
2. Tracing Sense/Reading Sensation: an essay on imprints and other matter
Martin Nachbar
3. Giving Sense to the Past: Historical D(ist)ance and the Chiasmatic Interlacing of Affect and Knowledge
Timmy de Laet
4. Martha@...The 1963 Interview - Sonic Bodies, Seizures and Spells
Richard Move
Historical Fiction and Historical Fact
5. Reenactment, Reconstruction and Dance Historical Fictions
Anna Pakes
6. Bound and Unbound: Reconstructing Merce Cunningham's Crises (1960)
Carrie Noland
7. The Motion of Memory, the Question of History. Recreating Rudolf Laban's Choreographic Legacy
Susanne Franco
Proleptic Iteration
8. To the Letter: Lettrism, Dance, Reenactment
Frédéric Pouillaude
9. Letters to Lila and Dramaturg's Notes on Future Memory: Inheriting Dance's Alternative Histories
Kate Elswit with Rani Nair
Investigative Reenactment: Transmission as Heuristic Device
10. (Re)enacting Thinking in Movement
Maaike Bleeker
11. Not Made by Hand, or Arm, or Leg: The Acheiropoietics of Performance
Branislav Jakovljevic
12. Pedagogic In(ter)ventions: On the Potential of (Re)enacting Yvonne Rainer's Continuous Project-Altered Daily (1969/70) in a Dance Education Context
Yvonne Hardt
Enacting Testimony/Performing Cultural Memory/ Spectatorship as Practice
13. What Remains of the Witness? Testimony as Epistemological Category: Schlepping the Trace
Susanne Foellmer
14. Baroque Relations: Performing Silver and Gold in Daniel Rabel's "Ballets of the Americas"
VK Preston
15. Reenacting Ritual Dance-Theater of India: The case of Kaisika Natakam
Ketu H. Katrak with Anita Ratnam
16. Gloriously Inept and Satisfyingly True: Reenactment and the Practice of Spectating
P.A. Skantze
The Politics of Reenactment
17. Blasting out of the Past: the Politics of History and Memory in Janez's Reconstructions
Ramsay Burt
18. Reenactment as Racialized Scandal
Anthea Kraut
19. Reenacting Modernist Time: William Kentridge's The Refusal of Time
Christel Staelpart
Redistributions of Time in Geography, Architecture, and Modernist Narrative
20. Quito-Brussels: A Dancer's Cultural Geography
Fabián Barba
21. Dance and the Distributed Body: Odissi and Mahari Performance
Anurima Banerji
22. Imagined Re-embodiment between Text and Dance
Susan Jones
Epistemologies of Inter-temporality
23. Affect, Technique, and Discourse: Being Actively Passive in the Face of History: Reconstruction of Reconstruction
Gerald Siegmund
24. Epilogue to an Epilogue: Historicizing the Re- in Danced Reenactment
Mark Franko
25. The Time of Reenactment in Basse Danse and Bassadanza
Seeta Chaganti
26. Time Layers, Time Leaps, Time Lost. Methodologies of Dance Historiography
Christina Thurner
Reenactment in/as Global Knowledge Circulation
27. (In)distinct Positions: The Politics of Theorizing Choreography
Jens Richard Giersdorf
28. Scenes of Reenactment/Logics of Derivation in Dance
Randy Martin
29. A Proposition for Reenactment: Disco Angola by Stan Douglas
Catherine M. Soussloff
30. Dance (Re)searching its Own History: On the Contemporary Circulation of Past Knowledge
Sabine Huschka
Afterword
Notes After the Fact
Lucia Ruprecht
