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Thinking Touch in Partnering and Contact Improvisation
What happens when artists take touch as a starting point for embodied research? This collection of essays offers unique insights into contact in dance, by considering the importance of touch in choreography, philosophy, scientific research, social dance, and education. The performing arts have benefitted from the growth of an ever-widening spectrum of tactile explorations since the advent of contact improvisation (CI) in 1972. Building on the research proposal CI offers, partnering forms such as tango, martial arts, and somatic therapies have helped shape the landscape of embodied practices in contemporary dance. Presenting a range of practitioner and scholarly perspectives relevant to undergraduate students and researchers alike, this volume considers the significance of touch in the development of 21st century pedagogy, art-making, and performance philosophy.
AIDS in Europe
Major changes in the nature and dynamics of the AIDS epidemic over the last few years are reflected in changing epidemiological trends as well as in the progress made in biomedical research and treatment. AIDS in Europe brings together papers from leading social science researchers to look at the opportunities and challenges these changes bring and the different ways in which they are being responded to in both western and eastern Europe. Papers are organised under three headings: *new challenges for HIV prevention *care of people living with HIV/AIDS in a new therapeutic context *AIDS public policies: from specialisation to normalisation AIDS in Europe provides a comprehensive overview of current social and behavioural research on HIV and AIDS for all health professionals.
Global Sex
Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure—as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health—are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact.
Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures
Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given the proliferation over time of users, practices, and places which need to have access to the texts that are important for cultural institutions, this is particularly true for authoritative texts. But the reproduction of texts by traditional means – either orally or by hand – inevitably produces variations. These variations can arise because of inattention, confusion, misunderstanding, deliberate modification, physical damage, and many other factors. In general, the more a text is reproduced, the more variations are likely to occur. But although the fact of textual variation i...
Milestones in Dance History
This introduction to world dance charts the diverse histories and stories of dancers and artists through ten key moments that have shaped the vast spectrum of different forms and genres that we see today. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest indigenous rituals and the dance crazes of Eastern trade routes, to the social justice performance and evolving online platforms of modern times. This clear, dynamic framework uses the idea of migrations to chart the shifting currents of influence and innovation in dance from an inclusive set of perspectives that acknowledge the enduring cultural legacies on display in every dance form. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.
Du signe à la performance
À travers le temps et l'espace, les idées n'ont pas manqué pour noter les éléments guidant des performances musicales ou scéniques (airs, chorégraphies, spectacles, etc.), afin de les initier ou de les perpétuer, pour les apprenants ou les interprètes, par les maîtres ou les créateurs. Que peut-on noter des sons, des gestes, des postures, des mouvements, des rythmes ? Les façons de noter et le sentiment de l'essentiel en vue de l'interprétation varient selon les arts et les cultures. Les mettre en partage, c'est aussi permettre de comprendre quels signes servent de base à la transmission et d'apprécier en connaisseur les réalisations dans un art et/ou une culture autres que les siens.
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Reproductive Health Behaviour of Young Europeans
This publication is the second volume of a report which examines the reproductive health behaviour of young people in Europe, focusing on the role of health education and promotion strategies in influencing reproductive behaviour. It includes case studies from the UK, Bulgaria, Finland and the Russian Federation.
Becoming Palestine
In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine's future. She shows how artists such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour, Farah Saleh, Basel Abbas, and Ruanne Abou-Rahme reimagine the archive, approaching it not through the desire to unearth hidden knowledge, but to sever the identification of the archive with the past. In their use of archaeology, musical traditions, and archival film and cinematic footage, these artists imagine a Palestinian future unbounded from colonial space and time. By urging readers to think about archives as a break from history rather than as history's repository, Hochberg presents a fundamental reconceptualization of the archive's liberatory potential.
Les virtuoses du corps
Contorsionnistes, yogis, plongeurs en apnée, imitateurs, mimes, équilibristes, ventriloques, nez, oenologues, beat boxers, karatékas artistiques, acrobates urbains, fakirs... Que savons-nous de ces êtres capables d'exploits corporels qui nous dépassent, expressions d'une variété humaine étonnante ? Quelles sont les limites de l'humain ? L'auteur a mené l'enquête : quelles raisons secrètes les conduisent à escalader à mains nues des gratte-ciels, à mémoriser des centaines d'effluves pour créer des parfums ? Comment vivent-ils leurs prouesses au quotidien ? À travers une trentaine de rencontres inoubliables, l'auteur va au-delà du mythe et de la fascination créée par le cinéma ou le Guinness Book. Il nous révèle le travail et les recettes de ces experts, leurs valeurs communes, les singularités des démarches, la fierté et les déboires de la célébrité. Stéphane Héas est sociologue, maître de conférence et chercheur à l'université de Rennes 2. Il a publié entre autres aux éditions l'Harmattan Anthropologie des relaxations (2004) et aux Presses universitaires de Nancy Discriminations dans les sports contemporains (2010).
