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... Working from Ido Kedar’s Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism’s Silent Prison, chapter 5 explores the concept of movement in the context of autism, asking how movement choreographs experience in a neurodiverse account of the everyday. The chapter returns to earlier concepts developed...

...Choreographing a Paper Tango ...

... More frequent intense wildfires around the world are the dark side of fire control measures. This chapter reviews Aboriginal fire techniques in Australia as a successful poetic and productive alternative that again choreographs human and nonhuman agency. The chapter compares Aboriginal...

... Chapter 1 traces how elite and state interests choreographed rumba historically for nation-building. Beginning in the nineteenth century and through the 1959 Revolution, representations of Black people dancing have tended to delink the embodied practice from Black consciousness and spirituality...

... to consider how exhibit makers combine and choreograph diverse options from each design medium’s repertoire to produce displays with potential to touch, educate, and engage visitors. Two media central to exhibit design—exhibit lighting and texts—serve as examples to illustrate the range and possibilities each...

... of seduction and refusal within a Black feminist tradition. Sacred epistemological and choreographic repertoires become critical tools for negotiating power, mitigating risk, asserting self-worth, and demanding compensation. pedagogy improvisation dissemblance employment discrimination feminist...

... The second chapter grapples with the tensions between authenticity, spectacle, and exoticism in its examination of Shango (1945), a dance choreographed for Broadway and performed in repertoire by Katherine Dunham and her dancers. Dunham's ethnographically informed invocation of Vodou makes...

... Engaging with the work of Palestinian dancer, choreographer, performer, and self-identified “archivist-activist” Farah Saleh, this chapter explores the potential of bodily experiences and performative gestures as a model for creating affective archives. Drawing attention to the productive space...

... to distort and displace conventional scientific practices. This intervention tested an Out of Africa hypothesis linking the pregnancy test and chytrids to the mass extinction of other amphibians. It also was an experiment in choreographing intimate dances among multiple species to bring together things...

... Jill Johnston wrote about three artists more than any others: writer Gertrude Stein, choreographer Yvonne Rainer, and painter Agnes Martin. This chapter considers these many writings as a form of lesbian dance criticism, an example of how Johnston followed not just art but artists, understanding...

... Based on the author’s artistic project IntuiTweet, which integrates movement improvisation, phenomenological writing, mobile phones, and the popular social-networking platform Twitter, this chapter explores choreographic and performative approaches to the study of embodied expression...

... Officers clamped down on after-hours venues in early 1983, using Arthur Weinstein as an informant. Dave Peaslee argued in Dance Music Report that choreographed closure of the city’s after-hours spots was motivated by a desire to move unwelcome populations out of gentrifying locations...

.... The next show featured Keith Haring, whose career continued on its upward trajectory and included a collaborative project with the U.S. choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones. Basquiat, meanwhile, released “Beat Bop,” a ten-minute experimental rap track, yet flickered in and out of the party scene until...

..., choreographic structures, movement motifs, and costume choices that reference the two most common tropes of Cold War dance history (Graham vs. the Swan) and mirrors back the end result—a reflection on the condition of a K-Pop idol as a product of Cold War culture wars. Martha Graham modern dance ballet...

..., selling every piece but one before opening night. The next show featured Keith Haring, whose career continued on its upward trajectory and included a collaborative project with the U.S. choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones. Basquiat, meanwhile, released “Beat Bop,” a ten-minute experimental rap track...