Research Catalog

Title

Choreography invisible : the disappearing work of dance / Anna Pakes.

Author

Pakes, Anna

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xv, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"Focusing on Western theatre dance, 'Choreography Invisible' explores the metaphysics of dances and choreographic works. It draws on a range of resources from analytic philosophy of art to develop the argument that dances are repeatable structures of action. The book also analyses the idea of the dance work in long-term historical perspective. Tracing different ways in which dances have been conceptualised across time, the book considers changing notions of authorship, fixity, persistence and autonomy from the fifteenth century to the present day. The modern work-concept is interrogated, its relativity and contested status (particularly within contemporary dance practice) acknowledged. As the dance work disappears from contemporary discourse, what can be said about the kind of thing it is? 'Choreography Invisible' considers the materials of dance-making and the nature (and limits) of choreographic authorship. It explores issues of identity and persistence, including why distinct (and sometimes very various) performances are still treated as performances of the same work. The book examines how dances survive through time and what it means for a dance work to be lost, considering the extent to which practices of dance reconstruction and reenactment can recuperate or reconstitute lost choreography. The focus here is dance, but the book addresses issues with wider implications for the metaphysics of art, including how the historical relativity of art practices should inflect analytic arguments about the nature of art works, and what place such works have within a broader ontology of human and natural worlds."--

Series Statement

Oxford studies in dance theory

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in dance theory.

Subject

• Dance > Philosophy
• Choreography
• Ephemeral art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-353) and index.

Contents

List of illustrations -- Series editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1. Historicising Dance Works -- Early dances and ballets -- Action-ballet and ballet-pantomime -- Modern(ist) dances and modern work-concepts -- Post-modern works -- Part 2. Creation -- Works, actions and structures -- Are dance works real? -- Part 3. Repeatability -- Dance identity -- Drowning in 'Swan Lakes' -- Part 4. Persistence -- Changing dance works -- Films, recordings, and screendance works -- Part 5. Loss and Recuperation -- The problem of lost works -- Recuperating loss? Reconstruction, reenactment, and work-performance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References and Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

*MGRL 22-4127

ISBN

• 9780199988211
• 0199988218
• 9780199988228
• 0199988226

LCCN

2019044711

OCLC

1127853378

Author

Pakes, Anna, author.

Title

Choreography invisible : the disappearing work of dance / Anna Pakes.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford studies in dance theory

Oxford studies in dance theory.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-353) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Pakes, Anna. Choreography invisible. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] 9780199988242 (DLC) 2019044712

Research Call Number

*MGRL 22-4127