The sentient archive : bodies, performance, and memory / edited by Bill Bissell and Linda Caruso Haviland.

Other author Bissell, Bill, editor, writer of introduction.
Other author Haviland, Linda Caruso, editor, writer of introduction.
Other author Marincola, Paula writer of foreword.
Format Book
PublicationMiddletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date©2018
Descriptionxvii, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Subjects
Dance--Philosophy.
Human body (Philosophy)

Contents Foreword / Paula Marincola -- 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.
Summary All modes of human inquiry, from the artistic to the scientific, are archived as body knowledge. 'The Sentient Archive' gathers together the work of scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts. These twenty-eight rich and challenging essays cross boundaries within and between disciplines, mediating the theoretical and the experiential to illustrate how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. In drawing connections between body and archive, the essayists consider how and why the moving body generates and stores information for recall, retrieval, or reenactment. The writers address issues of history, memory, and agency, but the knowing body, performed or reenacted, remains a focal point. Contributors include Nancy Goldner, Alain Platel, Catherine Stevens, Meg Stuart, Andre Lepecki, Ralph Lemon, and other notable scholars and artists.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Sentient archive. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2018] 9780819577764
LCCN 2017026923
ISBN9780819577740 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN081957774X hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN9780819577757 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBN0819577758 paperback ; alkaline paper

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