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.
Table of Contents
Contents1. Introduction: The Power of Recall in A Post-Ephemeral EraMark FrankoPhenomenology of the Archive2. Tracing Sense/Reading Sensation: an essay on imprints and other matterMartin Nachbar3. Giving Sense to the Past: Historical D(ist)ance and the Chiasmatic Interlacing of Affect and KnowledgeTimmy de Laet4. Martha@...The 1963 Interview - Sonic Bodies, Seizures and SpellsRichard MoveHistorical Fiction and Historical Fact5. Reenactment, Reconstruction and Dance Historical FictionsAnna Pakes6. Bound and Unbound: Reconstructing Merce Cunningham's Crises (1960)Carrie Noland7. The Motion of Memory, the Question of History. Recreating Rudolf Laban's Choreographic LegacySusanne FrancoProleptic Iteration8. To the Letter: Lettrism, Dance, ReenactmentFrédéric Pouillaude9. Letters to Lila and Dramaturg's Notes on Future Memory: Inheriting Dance's Alternative HistoriesKate Elswit with Rani NairInvestigative Reenactment: Transmission as Heuristic Device10. (Re)enacting Thinking in MovementMaaike Bleeker11. Not Made by Hand, or Arm, or Leg: The Acheiropoietics of PerformanceBranislav Jakovljevic12. Pedagogic In(ter)ventions: On the Potential of (Re)enacting Yvonne Rainer's Continuous Project-Altered Daily (1969/70) in a Dance Education ContextYvonne HardtEnacting Testimony/Performing Cultural Memory/ Spectatorship as Practice13. What Remains of the Witness? Testimony as Epistemological Category: Schlepping the TraceSusanne Foellmer14. Baroque Relations: Performing Silver and Gold in Daniel Rabel's "Ballets of the Americas"VK Preston15. Reenacting Ritual Dance-Theater of India: The case of Kaisika NatakamKetu H. Katrak with Anita Ratnam16. Gloriously Inept and Satisfyingly True: Reenactment and the Practice of SpectatingP.A. SkantzeThe Politics of Reenactment 17. Blasting out of the Past: the Politics of History and Memory in Janez's ReconstructionsRamsay Burt18. Reenactment as Racialized ScandalAnthea Kraut19. Reenacting Modernist Time: William Kentridge's The Refusal of TimeChristel StaelpartRedistributions of Time in Geography, Architecture, and Modernist Narrative20. Quito-Brussels: A Dancer's Cultural GeographyFabián Barba21. Dance and the Distributed Body: Odissi and Mahari PerformanceAnurima Banerji22. Imagined Re-embodiment between Text and DanceSusan JonesEpistemologies of Inter-temporality 23. Affect, Technique, and Discourse: Being Actively Passive in the Face of History: Reconstruction of ReconstructionGerald Siegmund24. Epilogue to an Epilogue: Historicizing the Re- in Danced ReenactmentMark Franko25. The Time of Reenactment in Basse Danse and Bassadanza Seeta Chaganti26. Time Layers, Time Leaps, Time Lost. Methodologies of Dance HistoriographyChristina ThurnerReenactment in/as Global Knowledge Circulation27. (In)distinct Positions: The Politics of Theorizing ChoreographyJens Richard Giersdorf28. Scenes of Reenactment/Logics of Derivation in DanceRandy Martin29. A Proposition for Reenactment: Disco Angola by Stan DouglasCatherine M. Soussloff30. Dance (Re)searching its Own History: On the Contemporary Circulation of Past KnowledgeSabine HuschkaAfterwordNotes After the FactLucia Ruprecht
