... This chapter brings together the theoretical resources developed throughout the book to advance a comprehensive theory of the chimpanzee waterfall dance. It begins with a reflection on the opposition, according to some philosophers of religion, between religion as a linguistically mediated...

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... Chapter 1 includes writing done by Jill Johnston that emphasizes generalizable claims. Pieces focus on both dance and gender, and these include works published in Dance Observer in the 1950s and the Village Voice in the 1960s and 1970s. feminist theory queer theory dance theory ...

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.... It then examines her dance criticism: both her writing about the Judson Dance Theater in New York City and her contributions, from 1955 to 1965, to the Dance Observer, ARTnews , and the Village Voice . The chapter also includes a comparison among theories about erotics and writing, through a discussion...

... In this chapter, I turn to the Five College archive of trans life as well as more canonical theories of hope to explore attunements that best equip us to notice trans hope in a poetic register. First, I cull three attunements from theorists of hope: attunements to trash, to the concrete...

... Improvisers are interested in placing themselves in situations in which particular constraints of fellows and objects encourage the emergence of something new or inventive. Any given performance remains a dance of interagency about which not all can be known or anticipated. This chapter uses...

... in ways that investigate the choreography-improvisation dichotomy ubiquitous in dance and performance theory. The young women’s creative work in two different performance activist projects that originated within the shelter, the Move Experiment and BlackLight, are highlighted here. The author analyzes how...

... This chapter reads the performance of Juba and the Buzzard Lope dances by both slaves and their post-Emancipation descendants as a refusal of capitalism’s commodification of the body. In contrast to the violence enacted on the flesh by slavery in order to yield the disciplined body, Juba beating...

... This chapter brings together three images of religion—a speech given by Benjamin Disraeli to the Oxford Diocesan Society in 1864, Jonathan Z. Smith’s account of a farmer covering his hands in the earth at his farm, and Jane Goodall’s description of chimpanzees dancing at the base of a waterfall...

... in relation to Plains Native ceremony and worldview, in particular the Earth Renewal, or Sun Dance, in which he has been a participant and leader for over three decades. The chapter concludes by arguing that Heap of Birds’s art, grounded in indigenous philosophies and notions of time, intervenes in current...

... in the power, I want to transform it. The relationship between classical and quantum mechanics is invoked and evaluated with the new rhythms of dancing justice. homosexualities dancing quantum mechanics Joseph Lamar ...

... of (full) democratic citizenship for people of African descent historically and in the present. The institution of marriage is evaluated as a “heterexpectation” that serves as a problematic foundation of the nation-state. Entanglement theory gives spring, bounce, and direction to the possibilities...

... also acting as a powerful force for Black girls’ political engagement in Detroit. This chapter details several instances of performance in specific public and private spaces in ways that investigate the choreography-improvisation dichotomy ubiquitous in dance and performance theory. The young women’s...

... of dance bars by the government of the state of Maharashtra. sexual states state-effect antisodomy law dance bars regional states Delving into Section 377, particularly the statistics related to it, the chapter provides an up-close view of sexuality’s constitutive effects on the state...

...Part IV In this chapter, I turn to the Five College archive of trans life as well as more canonical theories of hope to explore attunements that best equip us to notice trans hope in a poetic register. First, I cull three attunements from theorists of hope: attunements to trash...

...[ 2nd Set ] This chapter reads the performance of Juba and the Buzzard Lope dances by both slaves and their post-Emancipation descendants as a refusal of capitalism’s commodification of the body. In contrast to the violence enacted on the flesh by slavery in order to yield the disciplined...

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