Gabriele Brandstetter

Hans-Friedrich Bormann

Annemarie Matzke

Improvisieren hat Konjunktur. Was seit jeher ein wichtiges Merkmal aller künstlerischen Praxis war, wird gegenwärtig zu einem Vorbild für flexible und kreative Arbeitsformen außerhalb der etablierten Beschäftigungsverhältnisse erklärt. Grund genug, das Konzept selbst noch einmal zu befragen, seine Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen zu untersuchen. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge aus Philosophie, Literatur-, Medien-, Musik- und Theaterwissenschaft, die von dem problematischen Status des Improvisierens ausgehen: Welche besonderen Anforderungen stellt es? Welche Kategorien für seine Beschreibung und seine Beurteilung gibt es? Und welche Rolle spielt das Publikum dabei?

Paradoxien des Unvorhersehbaren. Kunst - Medien - Praxis

Improvisieren

Roberto Marchesini

Olivier Richon

Christoph Wulf

Bernd Hüppauf

Verena Kuni

André Krebber

Nicky Coutts

Miriam Hoffmann

Linda Keck

Susanne Schwertfeger

Franziska Winter

Das vorliegende Heft untersucht, wie Tiere in das Feld, das durch die Begriffe Mimesis, Mimikry und Mimese markiert wird, eingeschrieben sind. Die tierliche und die menschliche Geschichte der Mimesis, Mimikry und Mimese sind in vielfältiger Weise miteinander verwoben. Und tierliche wie menschliche Mimesis sind konzeptionell, materiell, motivisch, stilistisch, metaphorisch, rhetorisch, performativ oder partizipativ miteinander verknüpft. Mit Hilfe von Texten zu den theoretischen Grundlagen der Mimesis-Forschung, konkreten Fallbeispielen aus den Kulturwissenschaften und künstlerischen Beiträgen werden in diesem Band von Tierstudien unterschiedliche Umgangsweisen mit diesen Phänomenen genauer betrachtet. So widmet sich ein anthropologisch ausgerichteter Text dem Vergleich des mimetischen Lernens von menschlichen und nicht-menschlichen Tieren, ein anderer kommentiert Theodor W. Adornos klassische Mimesiskonzeption im Hinblick auf Tiere und ein weiterer fokussiert die Handlungsmacht von Tieren bei der Untersuchung von Mimesistheorien. Zwei kunsthistorische Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der nachahmenden Darstellung von Insekten in der Trompe-l'œil-Malerei, ein anderer kulturgeschichtlich ausgerichteter Text untersucht die medienwissenschaftlichen Implikationen von Spinnen und Spinnenrepräsentationen. Weitere Beiträge zum performativen Tier-Werden im Tanz, zur mimetischen Qualität von Dioramen in Naturkundemuseen und zur Verbindung von Mimesis und Ökologie verdeutlichen die Breite des Themenspektrums. Abgerundet wird der Band von zwei fotografischen Arbeiten, von denen die eine auf tradierte Mimesiskonzepte der Malerei rekurriert und die andere sich mit dem biologischen Phänomen der Mimikry auseinandersetzt.

Tierstudien 11/2017

Mimesis, Mimikry, Mimese

Gerko Egert

Holger Hartung

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.

Dance and Corporeality in Times of Travel and Migration

Movements of Interweaving

When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical and movement productions of the early twentieth-century. Author Gabriele Brandstetter established in this book not only a relation between dance and critical theory, but in fact a full interdisciplinary methodology that quickly found foothold with other areas of research within dance studies. The book looks at dance at the beginnings of the 20th century, the time during which modern dance first began to make its radical departure from the aesthetics of classical ballet. Brandstetter traces modern dance's connection to new innovations and trends in visual and literary arts to argue that modern dance is in fact the preeminent symbol of modernity. As Brandstetter demonstrates, the aesthetic renewal of dance vocabulary which was pursued by modern dancers on both sides of the Atlantic - Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller, Valeska Gert and Oskar Schlemmer, Vaslav Nijinsky and Michel Fokine - unfurled itself in new ideas about gender and subjectivity in the arts more generally, thus reflecting the modern experience of life and the self-understanding of the individual as an individual. As a whole, the book makes an important contribution to the theory of modernity.

Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes

Poetics of Dance

Sabine Zubarik

Touch is a fundamental element of dance. The (time) forms and contact zones of touch are means of expression both of self-reflexivity and the interaction of the dancers. Liberties and limits, creative possibilities and taboos of touch convey insights into the ‘aisthesis’ of the different forms of dance: into their dynamics and communicative structure, as well as into the production and regulation of affects. Touching and Being Touched assembles seventeen interdisciplinary papers focusing on the question of how forms and practices of touch are connected with the evocation of feelings. Are these feelings evoked in different ways in tango, Contact improvisation, European and Japanese contemporary dance? The contributors to this volume (dance, literature, and film scholars as well as philosophers and neuroscientists) provide in-depth discussions of the modes of transfer between touch and being touched. Drawing on the assumptions of various theories of body, emotion, and senses, how can we interpret the processes of tactile touch and of being touched emotionally? Is there a specific spectrum of emotions activated during these processes (within both the spectator and the dancer)? How can the relationship of movement, touch, and emotion be analyzed in relation to kinesthesia and empathy?

Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance and Movement

Touching and Being Touched

Nanako Nakajima

What does it mean to be able to move? The Aging Body in Dance brings together leading scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds to investigate cultural ideas of movement and beauty, expressiveness and agility. Contributors focus on Euro-American and Japanese attitudes towards aging and performance, including studies of choreographers, dancers and directors from Yvonne Rainer, Martha Graham, Anna Halprin and Roemeo Castellucci to Kazuo Ohno and Kikuo Tomoeda. They draw a fascinating comparison between youth-oriented Western cultures and dance cultures like Japan’s, where aging performers are celebrated as part of the country’s living heritage. The first cross-cultural study of its kind, The Aging Body in Dance offers a vital resource for scholars and practitioners interested in global dance cultures and their differing responses to the world's aging population.

A cross-cultural perspective

The Aging Body in Dance

Gabriele Brandstetter

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