Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic Maps

Henry Daniel is a distinguished SFU professor, professor of dance, performance studies and new technology, scholar, performer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Full Performing Bodies. Daniel’s research concentrates on strengthening notions of Practice-as-Research (PaR), Arts-based- Research, and Research/Creation in Canada. He leads a group of artists and scholars who help define new parameters for excellence in these areas. He has a professional background in dance, theatre, and new media with a career that started in his native Trinidad & Tobago and continued in the USA, Germany, the UK, and Canada.Full biography at www.henrydaniel.ca/about

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements PrologueACT 11. Autoethnography as a Methodological and Ideological Starting Point- A beginning of sorts- Will the artist please stand up?- Introducing the map- Microcosm vs. macrocosm- Mediating difference- Choreographic organization2. The Hypothesis Explained- Theory, perception, process and practice- Implications- Embodiment and disembodiment- Science, art, culture and the transdisciplinary mandate- Self-knowing- Movement, language and non-discursive thinking- Mirroring- Preliminary conclusions3. Further Presuppositions and Explorations in Search of a Theory of Practice- Revisiting the hypothesis- Shango Meets Ogun- Performing disembodiment- Futurist Equation- The futurist/humanist condition- Re-cognizing/re-membering- The lived machine- Performing consciousness- Scales and dimensions, movement and sound- Further conclusionsACT 24. Transnet- Performing art, performing science, transdisciplinary approaches to performance- Significant contributions- Choreography as transdisciplinary Practice-as-Research5. New Performance Maps- The Touched Project: Organization, control and emergence in choreographed performance systems- Touched- t2- t2_echo- Imprint- Imprint II- Embodied choreographic knowing6. Going West to Find East- Choreographing from the underside- Haikai, Encounters and Here Be Dragons (Stage I Creative Preview)- Barca: el otro lado- A barca: Reaching back to go forward- ambos lados- Isabella’s DreamACT 37. Contemporary Nomads- Nomadism- nómadas- nómadas 2018_excerpts- On Home- Multiple presences: Movement through space/time holes- The real and the virtual, reality and the dream- Performing the self: Movement as an unfolding and initiating of thoughtAn Epilogue: Fitting [Out-fitting] In - Who is he fooling and what is he really doing there? - Who am I and why am I here? - Fitting [Out-fitting] In- So, what’s your background?- Where are you from? I mean, where are you really from?- Oh! You’re a Professor? What do you teach?- What’s ahead? - FinaleAppendix A: Artisitic Works by the Author- Multi-year research projects referenced- Short-term stand-alone works mentioned Appendix B- Map A - Map B - Map C BibliographyIndex

'Daniel explores performance practice research as a transdisciplinary context for describing the embodied experience of liminality as expressed in the volume's subtitle. Through a complex scaffolding of philosophy, cultural studies, cartography, and neuroscience, he considers subject formation as enacted through performance, positioned here as a survival response. Reviewing a body of creative works produced across 20 years, the author argues for "worlding" as an extended performance event. Part autoethnography, part review of emergent discourses of embodied knowledge, the text bristles with anecdotal analyses of successive performance projects. [...] Well-chosen images and a companion web-based archive of performances enhance this retrospective self-appraisal of multiyear performance projects. Overall, Daniel illustrates in a personal way how the self emerges dynamically by "performing its way through" various environmental, political, and socioeconomic frameworks that colonizing processes impose. Recommended'