Gabriele Brandstetter

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

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

Heben, streifen, halten, stoßen - die Weisen der Berührung im Tanz sind vielfältig. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass die Berührung mehr als bloß der Kontakt zweier Körper ist, entwirft Gerko Egert ein Denken der Berührung als komplexes Zusammenspiel von Bewegungen, Erfahrungen und Affekten. In detaillierten Analysen zeitgenössischer Tanzaufführungen und der Auseinandersetzung mit Konzepten des Rhythmus, des Ereignisses und des Gefüges entstehen so neue Perspektiven auf Körper, Wahrnehmung und Bewegung. Dieses Buch eröffnet nicht nur die Frage der Berührung für die Tanzwissenschaft, sondern leistet ebenso einen zentralen Beitrag für eine prozessorientierte Theorie der Berührung.

Gerko Egert

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