From Heidegger to Performance

Martin Leach is senior lecturer of Performance Studies at De Montfort University where he teaches anatomy, physiology and philosophy to dance students. Marie Hay is senior lecturer in Dance in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts and part of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance at De Montfort University.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: From Heidegger to PerformanceMarie Hay and Martin LeachPart I: Temporality and PerformanceChapter 1. Entering into this Fundamental OccurrenceStuart GrantChapter 2. Heidegger’s Augenblick and the Ephemerality of DanceCatherine F. BothPart II: Attunement and PerformanceChapter 3. Speakingdance and Attunement: The Moment of Disclosing Who I AmMarie HayChapter 4. Heideggerian Care and Relational PerformancePaul GearyChapter 5. They RockHester ReeverPart III: Unconcealment and PerformanceChapter 6. Choreographing Death ‘Truthfully’: Dancing Unconcealment with Heidegger and Stanislavski in Sato’s RainKaren da SilvaChapter 7. ‘Dwelling Poetically’ in the Dance Studio: The Poetry in the Prose of BeingMartin LeachChapter 8. Heidegger, Art and Reality: Rethinking the Grounds of the Artist’s TechneKirsi MonniChapter 9. Misfitness: the hermeneutics of failure and the poetics of the clownMarcelo BeréIndexAbout the Contributors

What has Heidegger got to do with performance? As this insightful and genuinely inter-disciplinary collection shows, the answer is a great deal. Offering a sustained weaving together of these themes, this work will be of great interest for researchers, practitioners, and students in philosophy of history and in performance studies.