{"title":"DANCING WOMEN: CHOREOGRAPHING CORPOREAL HISTORIES OF HINDI CINEMA by Usha Iyer. 2020. New York: Oxford University Press. 269 pp. $35.99 paper. ISBN: 9780190938741. $125.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780190938734.","authors":"Sinjini Chatterjee","doi":"10.1017/S0149767722000067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767722000067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"54 1","pages":"113 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43153892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI: DRAMATURGY AND ENGAGED SPECTATORSHIP by Lise Uytterhoeven. 2019. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 271 pp., 16 illustrations. £64.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9783030278151. £44.99 paper. £34.99 e-book. ISBN: 9783030278168.","authors":"Heather Harrington","doi":"10.1017/s0149767721000395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0149767721000395","url":null,"abstract":"more about the experiences and needs of their constituencies. As I read, I found myself substituting “dance artists” for “PhD students and adjuncts,” drawing parallels between the dance field and the conditions of academic life. Her discussion of dance artists’ willingness to selfexploit provoked reflection about my own experiences and motivations: Why exactly did I agree to write this (unpaid) review? Why have I been teaching as an adjunct for five years? In what ways do I neglect forms of collective struggle and cave to the gravitational pull of individualist careerism? Van Assche’s exploration of precarity can help us attune to the ways that selfexploitation and smarm show up within concert dance, academia, and our lives more broadly.","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"53 1","pages":"92 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47178858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MOVING OTHERWISE: DANCE, VIOLENCE, AND MEMORY IN BUENOS AIRES by Victoria Fortuna. 2019. New York: Oxford University Press. 280 pp., 26 illustrations. $36.95 paper. ISBN: 9780190627027.","authors":"Eugenia Cadús","doi":"10.1017/S0149767721000371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767721000371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"53 1","pages":"88 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41961264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DRJ volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0149767721000449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0149767721000449","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"53 1","pages":"b1 - b3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47095286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Madame Mariquita, Greek Dance, and French Ballet Modernism","authors":"Sarah Gutsche-Miller","doi":"10.1017/S014976772100036X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S014976772100036X","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article seeks to correct prevailing narratives of French ballet modernism, which exclude one of its earliest and most significant choreographers, Madame Mariquita. Although long overshadowed by the Diaghilev enterprise and by dancers such as Isadora Duncan, Mariquita's experiments with creating dances that drew on ancient Greek imagery while ballet mistress at the Paris Opéra-Comique in the early 1900s were central to ballet culture in France at a pivotal moment in dance history. This article discusses Mariquita's nascent ballet modernism through her choreography of Greek dances as well as her engagement with early twentieth-century French dance and broader cultural trends.","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"53 1","pages":"46 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49294663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LABOR AND AESTHETICS IN EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY DANCE: DANCING PRECARITY by Annelies Van Assche. 2020. Cham, CH: Palgave Macmillian. 293 pp. 7 b/w illustrations, 5 color illustrations. $109.99 e-book. ISBN: 978-3-030-40693-6.","authors":"Olive Mckeon","doi":"10.1017/s0149767721000383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0149767721000383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"53 1","pages":"90 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43637350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TANDEM DANCES: CHOREOGRAPHING IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE by Julia M. Ritter. 2020. New York: Oxford University Press. 288 pp. 41 Illustrations. $35.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780190051310. $125.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780190051303.","authors":"M. Mandradjieff","doi":"10.1017/S0149767721000413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767721000413","url":null,"abstract":"symbol and excavate connections on a micro and macro level to reveal all facets of the work. In Myth, an unstable image of the cross —from crutches, to a weapon, to a crucifix— emphasizes the overarching theme that nothing is fixed. Cherkaoui’s productions offer fertile ground, porous enough to inject one’s own subjectivity into the meaning-making process, shifting between viewing and research. Those who have not seen his work may be inspired to see it live, and Uytterhoeven’s book may prompt a re-examination by those who have seen his productions. The reader is encouraged to contemplate the act of performance: What lives in the moment and what lives outside the body in mnemonic devices? How do they inform one another? Athough Uytterhoeven does not speak often about her visceral experiences of watching, she reflected: “I realised that I had no means of accounting for the strong affective, physical responses I felt to the powerful sections of the performance” (114). Is there a power in live performance that resides in the body and cannot be translated? Both writer and choreographer are utopian in their visions. For Uytterhoeven, the continued dramaturgy that happens after performance leads to cross-cultural conversations and possible shifts in perspective, engaging with Marianne Van Kerkhoeven’s “Grote Dramaturgie” (69), whereas Cherkaoui perceives movement as a universal language that possesses the ability to bring people together literally and figuratively. Uytterhoeven perceives movement as embedded in a cultural point of view (147). Chapter 3 elucidates problems with the idea of the universality of movement and transculturality in zero degrees and Sutra (2008). In both pieces Cherkaoui choreographs the physicalization of difference even as he tries to dance like the “Other.” In Babel (co-choreographed with Damien Jalet in 2010), spoken languages separate people, while movement unites them. Uytterhoeven explains, “For Cherkaoui and Jalet, people from diverse cultures can be connected through dance and bodywork as a transcultural act, which they propose are an antidote to conflict and misunderstanding as a result of language confusion” (203). The reader is left to ponder the properties of movement through different perspectives. Uytterhoeven focuses on one choreographer, but her scholarship expands outward into a myriad of directions. Her book inspires continued engagement, just as Cherkaoui’s work does. Can individual or social change be ignited after watching a performance? What ignites: the moment of watching or the analysis after viewing the performance? What are the tools of an artist in the twenty-first century? Cherkaoui’s large-scale theatrical productions, with sets and numerous performers and collaborators from all over the world, raise the question: What kind of work is possible, based on the financial support available? Not everyone will immerse themselves in the kind of in-depth, engaged spectatorship that Uytterhoeven advocates, bu","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"53 1","pages":"94 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42971983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Movement as Matter: A Practice-Based Inquiry into the Substance of Dancing","authors":"Alison D'amato","doi":"10.1017/S0149767721000346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767721000346","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article approaches dance through the lens of new materialist theories (speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, thing theory, posthumanism, etc.), considering the possibility that objecthood need not align with inertness and movement need not be excluded from the realm of the substantive. Deploying a practice-based methodology informed by participation in works by Simone Forti and Maria Hassabi, as well her own movement investigation, the author considers theoretical positions that counter the persistent association of dance with ephemerality while also broadly questioning the relationship between dance and theory.","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"53 1","pages":"69 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46808603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dancing to Transgress: Palestinian Dancer Sahar Damoni's Politics of Pleasure","authors":"Hodel Ophir","doi":"10.1017/S0149767721000401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767721000401","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As a woman Palestinian dancer and choreographer in Israel, Sahar Damoni performs within multiple contexts of cultural, gendered, and political oppression, employing her bodily art to challenge these structures, most poignantly through dances that express and evoke pleasure and sensual joy. Offering a detailed ethnography of three of Damoni's performances within one year in Israel/Palestine, I argue that an examination of her artistry provides unique insight into the intricate workings—and transgressions—of gender, ethnic, and national boundaries through the movement of the body in dance.","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"53 1","pages":"25 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44950549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}