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℗ʼ 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 Ibanez and Simon Kim -- Choreographic angelology / Andre 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.0.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.