Jonathan Burrows Towards a Minor Dance /

• Main Author: Perazzo Domm, Daniela (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New World Choreographies
• Subjects: Dance.; Theater.; Actors.; Performing arts.; Performers and Practitioners.; Performing Arts.

The first monograph on the work of British choreographer Jonathan Burrows, this book examines his artistic practice and poetics as articulated through his choreographic works, his writings and his contributions to current performance debates. It considers the contexts, principles and modalities of h...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Dance and/as poiesis, poetry, poetics
• 2.Resisting from within: Dance canons and their deterritorialisation
• 3.Reduction, repetition, returns: The trouble of minimalism
• 4.Rhythm as friendship: Movement, music and Matteo
• 5.Duets and (self-)portraits: Choreographing the im/personal
• 6.Choreographies of plurality: Rethinking collaboration and collectivity
• 7.Towards a politics of poetry, gesture and laughter.