Touching and Being Touched: Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance and Movement

Published by De Gruyter 2013

Touching and Being Touched

Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance and Movement

Edited by: Gabriele Brandstetter , Gerko Egert and Sabine Zubarik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110292046

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Touch is a fundamental element of dance. The (time) forms and contact zones of touch are means of expression both of self-reflexivity and the interaction of the dancers. Liberties and limits, creative possibilities and taboos of touch convey insights into the ‘aisthesis’ of the different forms of dance: into their dynamics and communicative structure, as well as into the production and regulation of affects.
Touching and Being Touched assembles seventeen interdisciplinary papers focusing on the question of how forms and practices of touch are connected with the evocation of feelings. Are these feelings evoked in different ways in tango, Contact improvisation, European and Japanese contemporary dance? The contributors to this volume (dance, literature, and film scholars as well as philosophers and neuroscientists) provide in-depth discussions of the modes of transfer between touch and being touched. Drawing on the assumptions of various theories of body, emotion, and senses, how can we interpret the processes of tactile touch and of being touched emotionally? Is there a specific spectrum of emotions activated during these processes (within both the spectator and the dancer)? How can the relationship of movement, touch, and emotion be analyzed in relation to kinesthesia and empathy?

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Gabriele Brandstetter and Gerko Egert, FU Berlin; Sabine Zubarik, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction
Touching and Being Touched Motion, Emotion, and Modes of Contact Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
I. Touch
Rühren, Berühren, Aufruhr Jean-Luc Nancy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Figure, Plasticity, Affect Niklaus Largier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Just Like That William Forsythe – Between Movement and Language Erin Manning and Brian Massumi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Movements of Touch in MAYBE FOREVER Gerko Egert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Cold Burn (Teion Yakedo) On Touch in Contemporary Japanese Performance Katherine Mezur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
The Fault Lines of Touching Krassimira Kruschkova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
II. Kinesthesia
On ‘Inner Touch’ and the Moving Body Aisthêsis, Kinaesthesis, and Aesthetics Mark Paterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Choreographies With and Without a Choreographer Intuitive and Intentional Corporeal Interactions Hilge Landweer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
“Listening” Kinesthetic Awareness in Contemporary Dance Gabriele Brandstetter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Do You Feel the Same Way Too? Corinne Jola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Empathy, Contagion and Affect The Role of Kinesthesia in Watching Dance Dee Reynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
III. Empathy
Affective Modulations in Politics, Theory and Art Marie-Luise Angerer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Is the Movement of the Filmic Image a Sign of Vitality? Robin Curtis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Feeling In and Out Contact Improvisation and the Politics of Empathy Ann Cooper Albright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
“Touch Me If You Can” The Practice of Close Embrace as a Facilitator of Kinesthetic Empathy in Argentine Tango Sabine Zubarik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Lost and Found in Interpretation Senses and Emotions in Contexts of Argentine Tango Kornilia Chatzimasoura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Dancing Tango The Weave of an Emotional, Corporal and Social Network Sonia Abadi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of dance and theatre studies; dance practitioners and teachers
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 323
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
Keywords: Dance; emotion; movement

eBook

Published: October 29, 2013
ISBN: 9783110292046

Hardcover

Published: October 17, 2013
ISBN: 9783110291865