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The Sentient Archive
Bodies, Performance, and Memory
Wesleyan Dance
Edited Bill Bissell , Linda Caruso Haviland
Sales Date: 2018-06-26
Top scholars and artists theorize the body as a crucible of knowledge
The Sentient Archive gathers the work of scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts. Its twenty-eight rich and challenging essays cross boundaries within and between disciplines, and illustrate how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. Contributors include Nancy Goldner, Marcia B. Siegel, Jenn Joy, Alain Platel, Catherine J. Stevens, Meg Stuart, André Lepecki, Ralph Lemon, and other notable scholars and artists.
Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Foreword—Paula Marincola
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Body Comparable—Bill Bissell and Linda Caruso Haviland
Considering the Body as Archive—Linda Caruso Haviland
I. BODIED KNOWING
Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland
Everyone Has Something to Tell—Alain Platel
Stalking Embodied Knowledge—Then What?—Tomie Hahn
The Sensing and Knowing Body: Choreographing Action and Feeling—Juhani Pallasmaa
Use Me—Meg Stuart
A Body-Mind Centering® Approach to Movement through Embodiment—Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Pleasure—Ralph Lemon
Slow—Ralph Lemon
II. MEMORY, HISTORY, AND RETRIEVAL
Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland
Memory Has Its Way with Me—Barbara Dilley
The Body Makes You Remember—Ivo van Hove
Touching History—Ann Cooper Albright
My Discovery of Dance—Allegra Kent
We Dance What We Remember: Memory in Perceiving and Performing Contemporary Dance —Catherine J. Stevens
The Stories in Our Bodies—Emily Johnson
III. THE BODY IN THE ARCHIVE
Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland
& We Should Live and Be Well: Five Artist Statements, 1995 – 2007—David Gordon
The Embodied Performance of Museum Visiting: Sacred Temples or Theaters of Memory?—Laurajane Smith
Sideways Glances: Painting and Dancing—Sarah Crowner
Leap Before You Look: Honoring the Libretto in Giselle and Apollo—Nancy Goldner
Body as Signifier—Patricia Hoffbauer
IV. PERFORMING THE ARCHIVE—Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland
Untitled—Bebe Miller
My Body, the Archive—Deborah Hay
Choreographing Somatic Memories and Spatial Residues—Jayachandran Palazhy
Tremulous Histories—Jenn Joy
Exit/Exist—Embodiment—Gregory Maqoma
V. AFTERLIVES AND TRANSFORMATIONS
Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland
Pavilion of Secrets—Marcia B. Siegel
Archiving Indeterminate Systems of Ecosystems and Improvisational Dance Strategies—Jennifer Monson
Them: Recombinant Aesthetics of Restaging Experimental Performance—Thomas F. DeFrantz
New Bodies, New Architecture—Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim
Choreographic Angelology—André Lepecki
Contributors
Index
BILL BISSELL is the director of Performance at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. LINDA CARUSO HAVILAND is an associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and the founder and director of the dance program.
"This volume presents a marvelous and diverse group of thinkers who, as artists and scholars, are reckoning with the dancing body as a site of knowing, remembering, and performing. Their comments yield deep insights into the nature of physicality and also the rich possibilities for writing about dance."
~Susan Leigh Foster, distinguished professor in the department of world arts and cultures/dance at UCLA
"The Sentient Archive summons a feast of diverse voices, giving each the space to speak without forcing them into a single chorus. Instead, the book works like a landscape where these voices and their shimmering echoes intersect, inviting us in to join the unfinished, disappearing dance of movement and memory, of the sentient body and its archival impulse, its fragile yet insistent resistance to the slippage of time. Collectively, these voices testify to the whispers and the wild feelings in our bones that can hardly be put into words, but bear our social flesh forward."
~Elizabeth A. Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body
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