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Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance

Unbecoming Rhythms
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Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance develops a new framework to understand performance and temporality in contemporary dance. Jonas Rutgeerts explores rhythm, offbeats, and various patterns to analyse how twenty-first-century choreographers perform time. Drawing on the philosophies of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Gaston Bachelard, the book examines the unique approaches of choreographers such as Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion, Ivana MΓΌller, Mette Edvardsen, and MΓ₯rten SpΓ₯ngberg, focusing on aspects like syncopation, hesitation, repetition, and audience experience.
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Develops a new framework to understand how temporality is performed in contemporary dance. It combines an in-depth analysis of the choreographic practices of Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Ivana MΓΌller, Mette Edvardsen and MΓ₯rten SpΓ₯ngberg with a close study of the philosophical work of Bergson, Deleuze and Bachelard. 13 b/w illus.

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Develops a new framework to understand performance and temporality in contemporary dance.

Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance probes rhythm, offbeats, and other patterns to examine how twenty-first-century choreographers perform time. Jonas Rutgeerts calls on the philosophical writings of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Gaston Bachelard to theorize work by choreographers renowned for their productively idiosyncratic approaches to dance: Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion, Ivana MΓΌller, Mette Edvardsen, and MΓ₯rten SpΓ₯ngberg.

Rutgeerts analyzes syncopation in the work of Burrows and Fargion, hesitation in MΓΌller’s While We Were Holding It Together, repetition in pieces by Edvardsen, and the audience’s experience of the present in SpΓ₯ngberg’s Natten.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789387032

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Illustration: 13 Halftones, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 549g

Pages: 214

About the Author

Jonas Rutgeerts is a dance researcher and dramaturg based in Belgium. He
obtained his Ph.D. at the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven) in 2015, which
analyzed how dance is performed in contemporary European dance.

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