Search Results for movement improvisation

... This chapter offers a comparative perspective on the relationship between the social and the aesthetic by contrasting the development of an Afro-modernist aesthetic of politics and music in American jazz improvisation of the 1950s and 1960s and the aesthetics of sensibilisation...

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... 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...

... the social without being reducible to it. 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...

... In this chapter, nine improvisers reflect on their encounters improvising while literally connected by large rubber bands. The practice of “banding” is an experimental exercise in movement and sound improvisation Tomie Hahn developed in 2008. During the 2010 Improvisation, Community and Social...

...Sensibility and Subjectivity In this chapter, nine improvisers reflect on their encounters improvising while literally connected by large rubber bands. The practice of “banding” is an experimental exercise in movement and sound improvisation Tomie Hahn developed in 2008. During the 2010...

... Interdisciplinary artist David Rokeby’s landmark work, Very Nervous System (1986–2004), uses video surveillance technology, synthesizers, a sound system, computers, and image-processing software designed by Rokeby to translate movement into music and/or sound. Through an intuitive process...

... Chapter 2 takes dance pedagogy as a point of entry into how Black women theorize their movements and the relationship of those improvisations to broader structural constraints. It explores how rumberas experience, understand, and navigate their uniquely raced and gendered position in the market...

...Representation and Identity This chapter addresses the fraught interface between improvisation and women. While critical studies of improvisation in jazz have offered powerful progressive ideals of social transformation, they rarely acknowledge the overwhelming presence of men who improvise...

... and participation, which are often taken as paradigms for the analysis of contemporary art practice in terms of their welcome attempt to rethink the relation between aesthetic and social processes. A third goal of the chapter is to ask precisely how it is that improvisation as a socio-musical practice adds...

... creativity for itself, art has made a corresponding movement into the deliberately boring and the uncreative. Novelty and creativity no longer signify in the manner that Manovich suggests. creativity poetry Kenny Goldsmith archive improvisation ...

... This chapter examines the versions of national identity enacted in the Argentine public sphere in 2010, during the official festivities commemorating the bicentennial of that country’s independence movement against Spanish rule. It analyzes the uses of symbols of high culture and musical harmony...

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... This chapter situates the performance practices of the AACM in general, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago in particular, within the modernism-postmodernism dichotomy. It shows how the AACM foregrounds the elasticity and overlap of these “movements” and problematizes them. Drawing...

... is thus neither a creation ex nihilo nor a mechanical fabrication or rearrangement of old elements. It is a continually inventive immanence, an always-beginning improvisation among the innumerable plenitude of the real. Jankélévitch concludes the chapter by arguing that only intuition captures duration...

... for consideration of constrained improvisations in broader diasporic relation and their black feminist potentialities. spirit possession restored behavior audience engagement refusal Black movements ...

... disparate, historically specific sites: that while both have been judged to be failed social movements, their epistolary archives reveal unorthodoxly successful, quotidian efforts to speculate upon the meaning of freedom in a global frame; that letters function as the generic means by which black settlers...

... embodied actions in improvisational performance (La Monte Young, John Cage); liberationist-cathartic collective performance, consonant with the libidinal revolutionary theories of Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown (Carolee Schneemann, Living Theatre); and populist rapport between...

... Liberal utilitarian and humanitarian arguments provided for the innovations in colonial government that administered the conduct of labor, movement, and trade in the post–Opium War Chinese treaty ports, and criminal justice in the new Crown Colony of Hong Kong. This chapter discusses John Stuart...