Research Catalog

Title

Thinking touch in partnering and contact improvisation : philosophy, pedagogy, practice / edited by Malaika Sarco-Thomas.

Publication

• Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Sarco-Thomas, Malaika, 1980-

Description

xiii, 309 pages : black and white illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"What happens when artists take touch as a starting point for embodied research? This collection of fourteen essays offers unique insights into the importance of contact in dance by considering how touch shapes our thinking processes in choreography, philosophy, scientific research, social dance, and education. Notably since the advent of contact impprovisation (CI) in 1972, the performing arts have benefitted from insights gained through an ever-widening spectrum of tactile explorations. Building on the research proposal offered by CI, partnering forms such as tango, martial arts, and somatic therapies have helped shape the landscape of embodied practices in the field of dance. Presenting a range of practitioner and scholarly perspectives relevant to undergraduate students and researchers alike, this volume highlights the significance of touch in the development of 21st century pedagogy, art-making, and performance philosophy." --

Subject

• Dance > Philosophy
• Improvisation in dance
• Touch
• touch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Touch : how does it think? What does it do? -- Part I : choreographies of touch -- The way you look (at me) tonight : touch tours, haptic practices, and sensory strategies / Jess Curtis -- Touch improvisations in gaga / Biliana Vassileva -- Thinking touch in choreography : an artist dialogue / Scott Wells and Charlie Morrissey -- Part II : studies of touch -- Empirical research in an embodied practice : can the study of partnering touch, touch on something new? / Corinne Jola -- Contact improvisation and the health sciences : mapping the terrain / Malaika Sarco- Thomas and Rebecca Zammit -- Facilitating thinking-touch through process philosophy and contact improvisation / Dorte Bjerre Jensen -- Touch in Tango as a form of contagion / Raffaele Rufo -- Part III : pedagogies of touch -- Touch and other senses in teaching and learning contact improvisation / María Paz Brozas Polo -- To dwell in possibility / Lucia Walker -- Sensing and making sense of touch within movement pedagogies for theatre and performance / Vanio Papdelli -- Part IV : philosophies of touch -- Of honey and waxwood : encountering inter-animacy through phenomenology / Brandon Calleja Shaw -- Of the animal body : transforming the notion of disability through different readings of touch, prosthetic devices, and contact improvisation / Carolien Hermans -- Embodied ethics : the conditions and norms of communication in partnering / Ilya Vidrin -- Articulating presence : attention is tactile / Nita Little and Jospeh Dumit

ISBN

• 9781527553637
• 1527553639

OCLC

• on1198599958
• 1198599958
• SCSB-13649773

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library