Moving (Across) Borders: Performing Translation, Intervention, Participation

»Die Vielfalt der Menschen, die in diesem Buch zu Wort kommen, macht dieses Werk so spannend und die zahlreichen theoretischen Ansätze sprechen sowohl Choreographen als auch Tänzer und Tanzinteressierte an.« UP TO DANCE, 3 (2017) Besprochen in: Tanz, 6 (2017) Dancing Chronicles, 41/2 (2018), Lucille Toth

As performative and political acts, translation, intervention, and participation are movements that take place across, along, and between borders. Such movements traverse geographic boundaries, affect social distinctions, and challenge conceptual categorizations - while shifting and transforming lines of separation themselves. This book brings together choreographers, movement practitioners, and theorists from various fields and disciplines to reflect upon such dynamics of difference. From their individual cultural backgrounds, they ask how these movements affect related fields such as corporeality, perception, (self-)representation, and expression.

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction: Moving (Across) Borders 7 Human, Animal, Thing 23 Dance as Image - Image as Dance 43 Performing "Africa" 55 The Global Politics of Faustin Linyekula's Dance Theater 79 "But you know I don't think in words." 93 A New War on Borders 117 An Artist/Activist Moving (Across) Borders 135 Indian Idealism 151 Risk Taking Bodies and Their Choreographies of Protest 169 The Archiving Body in Dance 191 Questions of Participation: Implementing the German Dance Congress as an Artistic, Reflective, and Political Project 219 "Tea Times" 231 Contributors 239