Transmissions in dance: contemporary staging practices
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 1666
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-64873-6
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319648729
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/22803/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Main’s chapter focuses upon two solo works by Doris Humphrey and explores the task of translators and transmitters to pursue the artist’s intentions through the evidence and via the crafting the of strands uncovered into ‘coherent wholes’ for performers and audiences.
This chapter sits with the frame of her own edited collection which addressed central questions of the impact of variant staging processes and what these can reveal about a dance work are addressed through the lens of the performer and performance, from the 'inside' of a work, from the perspective of the performance arena.
The nucleus for this volume was "Transmission: A Performance Symposium", December, 2014. This event, curated by the editor, was a response to the growing landscape of practitioner-led scholarship and it considered the increasing approaches to staging the work of another. The focus and selection of contributors to the book evolved from this symposium, presenting a range of works and practitioner/authors that collectively crossed time and borders. The time period spans a century, from Laban’s Dancing Drumstick (1913) to Cohan’s Sigh (2015), interspersed with works by Wigman, Atkinson, Humphrey, Graham, Rainer and Butcher.
Familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation are situated alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission, translation and transformation to advance the debate and to illustrate the capacity of dance as a medium to adapt successfully to diverse approaches and what more these approaches can draw forth to expand understanding about staging processes, individual artist legacies, artist canons, contemporary audience engagement.
"Main's volume makes a unique contribution in virtue of its archival content and thematic framework." (Conroy, 2019, Dance Research,37:2) https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/drs.2019.0278
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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