Anarchic Dance

Name: Anarchic Dance
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ISBN: 9780415365161

ISBN-10: 0415365163

ISBN-13: 9780415365161

Edition: 2006

Authors: Billy Cowie, Liz Aggiss, Ian Bramley

List price: $140.00

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Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humor. They have created dance theatre, cabaret, live art, single and multiple screen dance installations, and live performance installations. Anarchic Dance is a visual and textual record of the work of Divas Dance Theatre. The DVD-Rom included in the package features extracts from Aggiss and Cowie's work, including the highly-acclaimed dance film Motion Control (first premiered on BBC2 in 2002), rare video footage of their punk-comic live performances as The…

Book details

List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Foreword



Acknowledgements



Introduction: Navigating the known




The aesthetics of smash and grab




Writing dance




Liz Aggiss and 'Authentick' grotesque expressionism




Choreographic vocabulary 1: Visual metaphor




Outsider performance: A raw vision: Dance and learning difficulties




Deconstruction in Die Orchidee: Mischievous plays in the spaces between language and meanings




Hilde Holger, spirit and maracas




Choreographic vocabulary 2: Time and rhythm




The impossibility of the review in the mind of the critic




Deconstructing Heidi




Choreographic vocabulary 3: Space




Screen Divas: A filmic expression of the grotesque aesthetic




Reconstruction: Or why you can never step into the same river twice




Anarchic dance



Afterword



List of works


Bibliography


Index