Movements of Interweaving

Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept of intercultural dance performances, but through its innovative approach also calls attention to the specific qualities of "interweaving" as a form of movement itself. Divided into four sections, this volume features an international team of scholars together developing a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel and migration in and beyond dance.

Gabriele Brandstetter is co-director of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" and Professor of Theater and Dance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Gerko Egert is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Applied Theater Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Holger Hartung is coordinator of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Movements of Interweaving Introduction by Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerko Egert and Holger Hartung PART I Dancing, Traveling, Migrating 1 Akram Khan. The Creative Confusion of the Migrating Body Guy Cools 2 Whale's Tails and Rose Petals. Tanztheater's Souvenir Bodies and Butoh's Rwanda Katherine Mezur 3 Hashtag Mitimiti. Reciprocities of Indigenized Dance Jacqueline Shea Murphy 4 The Interweaving of Movement Cultures in Gregory Maqoma's Beautiful Me Sabine Sörgel PART II Corpo-Realities 5 Throwing the Aging Body into the Fight. Raimund Hoghe's An Evening with Judy in Kyoto Nanako Nakajima 6 The Gesture of Interweaving. A Look at the Landscape of Contemporary Dance in Brazil Cristina F. Rosa 7 Deborah Hay's Solo Performance Commissioning Project Susan Foster 8 From Curse to Cure through Performing the Contagious Body. Colonial and Postcolonial Dis/Continuities from Jean Rouch to Ousmane Sembène Klaus-Peter Köpping PART III Movement as Interweaving 9 Reggie Wilson and the Making of Moses(es) Susan Manning 10 Black Swan of Trespass: Dramaturgies of Public Space Paul Carter 11 The Inception of Yanomami Shamanic Initiation and the Movement of Parts Evelyn Schuler & Alfredo Zea PART IV Unweavings 12 Border Control--Framing the Atypical Body. You say radical, I say conservative; you say inclusive, I say subversive . . . Kaite O'Reilly 13 ReNaissance of the Orient in Gustave Flaubert's "Hérodias". Interwoven movement patterns in Salome's Dance Gabriele Brandstetter 14 Interweaving Dance Archives. Devadasis, Bayadères and Nautch Girls of 1838 Avanthi Meduri 15 The Contemplative Spectator. Seeing as a Mode of Stilling Mind Navtej Johar