Movements of Interweaving

Gabriele Brandstetter is co-director of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" and Professor of Theater and Dance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.Gerko Egert is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Applied Theater Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Holger Hartung is coordinator of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• Movements of InterweavingIntroduction by Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerko Egert and Holger HartungPART IDancing, Traveling, Migrating1 Akram Khan. The Creative Confusion of the Migrating BodyGuy Cools2 Whale’s Tails and Rose Petals. Tanztheater’s Souvenir Bodies and Butoh’s RwandaKatherine Mezur3 Hashtag Mitimiti. Reciprocities of Indigenized DanceJacqueline Shea Murphy4 The Interweaving of Movement Cultures in Gregory Maqoma’s Beautiful MeSabine SörgelPART IICorpo-Realities5 Throwing the Aging Body into the Fight. Raimund Hoghe’s An Evening with Judy in KyotoNanako Nakajima6 The Gesture of Interweaving. A Look at the Landscape of Contemporary Dance in BrazilCristina F. Rosa7 Deborah Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning ProjectSusan Foster8 From Curse to Cure through Performing the Contagious Body. Colonial and Postcolonial Dis/Continuities from Jean Rouch to Ousmane SembèneKlaus-Peter KöppingPART IIIMovement as Interweaving9 Reggie Wilson and the Making of Moses(es)Susan Manning10 Black Swan of Trespass: Dramaturgies of Public SpacePaul Carter11 The Inception of Yanomami Shamanic Initiation and the Movement of PartsEvelyn Schuler & Alfredo ZeaPART IVUnweavings12 Border Control––Framing the Atypical Body. You say radical, I say conservative; you say inclusive, I say subversive . . .Kaite O’Reilly13 ReNaissance of the Orient in Gustave Flaubert’s "Hérodias". Interwoven movement patterns in Salome’s Dance Gabriele Brandstetter14 Interweaving Dance Archives. Devadasis, Bayadères and Nautch Girls of 1838Avanthi Meduri15 The Contemplative Spectator. Seeing as a Mode of Stilling MindNavtej Johar