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This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understanding of it. Performance art emerged internationally between the 1960s and 1970s crossing disciplinary boundaries between performing arts and visual arts. Because of the challenge it posed to the ontologies and paradigms of these fields, performance art has since stimulated an ongoing debate on the most appropriate means to document, preserve and display it. Tancredi Gusman brings together international scholars from different disciplinary fields to examine methods, media, and approaches by which this art form has been represented and (re)activated ov...
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This book brings together dance and visual arts scholars to investigate the key methodological and theoretical issues concerning reenactment. Along with becoming an effective and widespread contemporary artistic strategy, reenactment is taking shape as a new anti-positivist approach to the history of dance and art, undermining the notion of linear time and suggesting new temporal encounters between past, present, and future. As such, reenactment has contributed to a move towards different forms of historical thinking and understanding that embrace cultural studies – especially intertwining gender, postcolonial, and environmental issues – in the redefinition of knowledge, historical disco...
Performing Memory Through Dance. Anthropological Perspectives Dossier edited by Susanne Franco and Franca Tamisari Introduction Susanne Franco, Franca Tamisari An autoethnographic spiral: dancing "showerhead" Elizabeth Waterhouse Dancing with and for others in the field and postcolonial encounter Franca Tamisari Performing Salome in the Pacific. Three works by Yuki Kihara Susanne Franco Afterword Ann R. David Saggi "Voi non mi conoscete, ci scommetto!" Giro a vuoto (1960) di Laura Betti, tra cabaret letterario e riforma della canzone Benedetta Zucconi Artisanal inventiveness. The dynamics of rewriting in the plays of northern Italian puppeteers (19th-20th century) Francesca Di Fazio The sound and visual dramaturgy of Romeo Castellucci Carlo Fanelli The City as a Score: Dialoguing with the Ex-Ghetto Ebraico of Bologna through Museum Research and Choreographic Practice Silvia Garzarella, Sarah Minisohn L' Orfeo di Trisha Brown: il mito tra danza pura ed eloquenza mimica Aline Nari Re-enactment e Bildung: il caso etico de La reprise di Milo Rau Andrea Vecchia
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Based on meticulous research in the archives of some of the most prominent Italian avant-garde writers, Poetry on Stage examines the literary and ideological climate of the sixties and seventies.