Beschreibung
This book embarks on an interdisciplinary study of dance theater, one that provides a deeper insight into contemporary performing arts. Ciane Fernandes combines Laban movement analysis and the writings of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault to investigate repetition in the works and creative process of Pina Bausch (b.1940), who is considered to be one of the most important choreographers of the twentieth century. This book examines repetition in Bausch’s pieces as both method and subject, exploring its power in the metamorphosis of meaning. Repetition is used to subvert its own process of domination over the body at aesthetic, cognitive, and social levels. The body simultaneously becomes natural and linguistic, experiential and automatic, personal and social, constantly repeating and transforming the history of its domination.
Autorenportrait
The Author: Ciane Fernandes is a tenured professor in the Performing Arts Graduate Program at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and an associate researcher at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS), New York. She received a Ph.D. in art and humanities for performing artists from New York University (1995) and a certificate of movement analysis from LIMS (1994). She is the author of The Moving Body: The Laban/Bartenieff System in Performing Arts Education and Research (2002). She has danced and choreographed in the United States, Italy, and Brazil, and has published articles in Brazil and Germany. She is Director of the AFFECTUS Dance Theater Group at the Federal University of Bahia, which in 2000 received the Brazilian ANDES-SN National Prize for Art at Universities. She has been awarded with several scholarships and prizes, including a 2003 Virtuoso Grant from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture to further develop her latest project: a comparative study between contemporary dance theater and the classical Indian dance style of Bharatanatyam at the Rajyashree Ramesh Academy for Performing Arts, Berlin.
