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Ungoverning Dance: Contemporary European Theatre Dance and the Commons - Oxford Studies in Dance Theory (Hardback)
Ramsay Burt (author)
£74.00
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268 Pages /
Published: 08/12/2016
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Ungoverning Dance examines the work of progressive contemporary dance artists in continental Europe from the mid 1990s to 2015. Placing this within its historical and political context - that of neoliberalism and austerity - it argues that these artists have developed an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices as sites of resistance against dominant ideologies, and that their works attest to the persistence of alternative ways of thinking and living. In response to the way that the radical values informing their work are continually under attack from neoliberalism, these artists recognise that they in effect share common pool resources. Thus, while contemporary dance has been turned into a market, they nevertheless value the extent to which it functions as a commons. Work that does this, it argues, ungoverns dance. Theoretically, the book begins with a discussion of dance in relation to neoliberalism and post-Fordism, and then develops an account of ethico-aesthetics in choreogra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199321926
Number of pages: 268
Weight: 528 g
Dimensions: 236 x 163 x 19 mm
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