Research Catalog

Title

Choreographing discourses : a Mark Franko reader / edited by Mark Franko with Alessandra Nicifero.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Franko, Mark
• Nicifero, Alessandra, 1968-

Description

xv, 288 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes un-translated sources, and curating their relationship to a rapidly-changing field, this Reader offers an important resource in the dynamic scholarly fields of dance and performance studies. What makes this volume especially appropriate for undergraduate and graduate teaching is its critical focus on twentieth and twenty-first century dance artists and choreographers - among these Oskar Schlemmer, Merce Cunningham, Kazuo Ohno, William Forsythe, Bill T. Jones, and Pina Bausch, some of the most high-profile European, American, and Japanese artists of the past century. The volume's constellation of topics delves into controversies that are essential turning points in the field (notably Still/Here and Paris is Burning), which illuminate the spine of the field while interlinking dance scholarship with performance theory, film, visual, and public art. The volume contains the first critical assessments of Franko's contribution to the field by André Lepecki and Gay Morris, and an interview incorporating a biographical dimension to the development of Franko's work and its relation to his dance and choreography. Ultimately, this Reader encourages a wide scope of conversation and engagement, opening up core questions in ethics, embodiment, and performativity"--

Subjects

• Dance
• Choreography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Writing for the body: notation, reconstruction, and reinvention in dance -- History/theory: criticism/practice -- From Croce's critical condition to the choreographic public sphere -- Splintered encounters: the critical reception of William Forsythe in the United States, 1979-1989 -- Archeological choreographic practices: Foucault and Forsythe -- Figurae: re-translating the encounter between Peter Welz, William Forsythe and Francis Bacon -- Dance and figurability -- Can we inhabit a dance? reflections on dancing the "Bauhaus dances" in Dessau -- The readymade as movement: Cunningham, Duchamp, and Nam June Paik's Two merces -- Dance as sign and unruly corporeality in Pasolini's film and theory -- The dancing gaze across cultures: Kazuo Ohno's Admiring la Argentina -- Bausch and the symptom -- The quarrel of the queen and the transvestite: sexuality, class and subculture in Paris is burning -- Dance, the de-materialization of labor, and the productivity of the corporeal -- In the company of Donya Feuer: an interdisciplinary method -- In conversation: Alessandra Nicifero with Mark Franko.

Call Number

*MGRL 19-2144

ISBN

• 9780815378969
• 0815378963
• 9780815378983
• 081537898X

LCCN

• 2018035914
• 40028823141

OCLC

1081366376

Title

Choreographing discourses : a Mark Franko reader / edited by Mark Franko with Alessandra Nicifero.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Franko, Mark, editor.

Nicifero, Alessandra, 1968- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Franko, Mark, author. Choreographing discourses Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781351227384 (DLC) 2019000339

Other Standard Identifier

40028823141

Research Call Number

*MGRL 19-2144