Unworking Choreography

Name: Unworking Choreography
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ISBN: 9780190649975

ISBN-10: 0190649976

ISBN-13: 9780190649975

Edition: N/A

Authors: Frdric Pouillaude

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There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, dance refers to a space other than art, considered both more frivolous and more fundamental than the artwork without ever quite attaining the status of a work. Unworking Choreography develops this idea and postulates an unworking as evidenced by a conspicuous absence of references to actual choreographic works within philosophical accounts of dance; the late development and partial dominance of the notion of…

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Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic US
Binding: E-Book