The Oxford Handbook Of Dance And Reenactment (Oxford Handbooks)

Starting from differences between reenactment and the more established practice of historical reconstruction, leading practitioners and theorists ask how the notion of preservation and representation associated with reconstruction is transformed by reenactment into historical experience and affective relation to the past in the present. In other terms: How does dance convey historical meaning through sensuous form? Danced reenactment poses the problem of history and historicity in relation to the troubled temporality inherent to dance itself. Ephemerality as the central trope of dance is hence displaced in favor of dance as a reiterative practice that confounds categories of chronological time and opens up a theoretical space of history that is often invisibilized by ideologies of immediacy traditionally attributed to dancing.

• | Author: Mark Franko
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 13, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 681 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Music
• | ISBN-10: 0199314209
• | ISBN-13: 9780199314201