Philosophy of dance / Editors, Peter A. French, Arizona State University, Howard K. Wettstein, University of California, Riverside, Patrick Londen, University of California, Riverside.
1. Dances, Danceworks, and Choreographic Works: A Plea for Conceptual Clarity / Renee Conroy -- 2. 'Like-Sensing Subjects': Husserl and Dance / Carrie Noland -- 3. The Paradox of Post-Performance Amnesia / Barbara Montero -- 4. Image Consciousness, Movement Consciousness / Jonathan Owen Clark -- 5. Some Stabs at the Ontology of Dance / Noël Carroll -- 6. Identity in Dance: What Happened? / Julie Van Camp -- 7. Audiences Appreciating Dances / Graham McFee -- 8. Dance Seen and Dance-Screened / David Davies -- 9. On Dancers as Coauthors / Paul Thom -- 10. Dance as Art, Theatre, and Practice / Richard Shusterman -- 11. Rhythm and Movement: The Conceptual Interdependence of Music, Dance and Poetry / Andy Hamilton -- 12. Is Tap Dance A Form of Jazz Percussion? / Aili Bresnahan -- 13. Can There Be Conceptual Dance? / Anna Pakes -- 14. Beauty Always Dies: The Philosophical Significance of Non-Enduring Artworks / Troy Jollimore -- 15. Three Kinds of Movement / Barry Allen -- 16. Movement: Its Centrality in Natural History and Its Lifelong Significance: What Evolution (and Gesture) Can Teach Us / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone -- 17. Beyond Petipa and Before the Academy: Plato, Socrates and Alexi Ratmansky's Serenade After Plato's Symposium / Kristin Boyce.
Summary:
"This volume brings together new work in the philosophy of dance for a general philosophical audience. Scholars working across the fields of philosophy, dance studies, and related areas explore the nature of dance as a practice and an artform. This collection of essays covers topics such as the experience of dancing, the nature and appreciation of dance artworks, and the distinctive contribution of dance to philosophical understanding"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Midwest studies in philosophy, 0363-6550 ; volume XLIV
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