Preston-Dunlop, Valerie 1930-

Dance and the performative : a choreological perspective : Laban and beyond / Valerie Preston-Dunlop, Ana Sanchez-Colberg ; with essays by Frank Werner, Paula Salosaari, Sarah Rubidge. - Reprint - Alton, Hamps., Eng. : Dance Books Ltd., 2010. - 307 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

PART 1 A Choreological Perspective : Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Core concepts of a chronological perspective / Chapter 3 The strands of the dance medium and their nexus / Chapter 4 Movement mediated by performer: Laban and beyond / Chapter 5 A 'binocular vision': semiology and phenomenology of dance -- Chapter 6 What next? -- Bibliography for part 1 -- Dance works cited in part 1 -- PART 2 Current modes of enquiry in chronological practice : Chapter 7 Current modes of enquiry in chronological practice / Chapter 8 Identity in flux: a practice-based interrogation of the ontology of the open dance work / Chapter 9 'Futur/Perfekt': re-locating performance...or a dance about everything and the kitchen sink / Chapter 10 Issues in revivals and re-creations: a chronological enquiry / Chapter 11 Multiple embodiment of ballet and the dancer's cultural agency / Chapter 12 A chronological analysis of Trisha Brown's 'Accumulation with Talking plus Watermotor for Stephen' / Chapter 13 Looking at dances: beyond communication to transaction / Permissions -- List of illustrations -- Subject index -- Name Index -- Biographies. 2.1 embodiment and corporeality ; 2.2 a triadic perspective: creation, performance, reception ; 2.3 three constituents: idea, medium and treatment ; 2.4 process and product -- 3.1 four strands ; 3.2 the nexus and substrands -- 4.1 the ontology of human movement from a chronological perspective ; 4.2 behavioural and formal dance vocabularies ; 4.3 the components of movement material ; 4.4 relatedness between people and within the body ; 4.5 choreutics with proxemics and the phenomenology of space ; 4.6 eukinetics: rhythm, timing and dynamics -- Valarie Preston-Dunlop and Ana Sanchez-Colbert -- Sarah Rubidge Ana Sanchez-Colbert -- Valarie Preston-Dunlop -- Paula Salosaari -- Frank Werner -- Valerie Preston-Dunlop --

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Laban, Rudolf von, 1879-1958


Modern dance
Dance notation
Interpretive dancing

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