Overview

All modes of human inquiry, from the artistic to the scientific, are archived as body knowledge. The Sentient Archive gathers together the work of scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts. These twenty-eight rich and challenging essays cross boundaries within and between disciplines, mediating the theoretical and the experiential to illustrate how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. In drawing connections between body and archive, the essayists consider how and why the moving body generates and stores information for recall, retrieval, or reenactment. The writers address issues of history, memory, and agency, but the knowing body, performed or reenacted, remains a focal point. Contributors include Nancy Goldner, Alain Platel, Catherine Stevens, Meg Stuart, Andre Lepecki, Ralph Lemon, and other notable scholars and artists.

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Author:   Bill Bissell ,  Linda Caruso Haviland
Publisher:   Wesleyan University Press
Imprint:   Wesleyan University Press
ISBN:  

9780819577757

ISBN 10:   0819577758
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   26 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Foreword—Paula Marincola Acknowledgments Introduction: A Body Comparable—Bill Bissell and Linda Caruso Haviland Considering the Body as Archive—Linda Caruso Haviland I. BODIED KNOWING Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland Everyone Has Something to Tell—Alain Platel Stalking Embodied Knowledge—Then What?—Tomie Hahn The Sensing and Knowing Body: Choreographing Action and Feeling—Juhani Pallasmaa Use Me—Meg Stuart A Body-Mind Centering® Approach to Movement through Embodiment—Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen Pleasure—Ralph Lemon Slow—Ralph Lemon II. MEMORY, HISTORY, AND RETRIEVAL Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland Memory Has Its Way with Me—Barbara Dilley The Body Makes You Remember—Ivo van Hove Touching History—Ann Cooper Albright My Discovery of Dance—Allegra Kent We Dance What We Remember: Memory in Perceiving and Performing Contemporary Dance —Catherine J. Stevens The Stories in Our Bodies—Emily Johnson III. THE BODY IN THE ARCHIVE Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland & We Should Live and Be Well: Five Artist Statements, 1995–2007—David Gordon The Embodied Performance of Museum Visiting: Sacred Temples or Theaters of Memory?—Laurajane Smith Sideways Glances: Painting and Dancing—Sarah Crowner Leap Before You Look: Honoring the Libretto in Giselle and Apollo—Nancy Goldner Body as Signifier—Patricia Hoffbauer IV. PERFORMING THE ARCHIVE—Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland Untitled—Bebe Miller My Body, the Archive—Deborah Hay Choreographing Somatic Memories and Spatial Residues—Jayachandran Palazhy Tremulous Histories—Jenn Joy Exit/Exist—Embodiment—Gregory Maqoma V. AFTERLIVES AND TRANSFORMATIONS Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland Pavilion of Secrets—Marcia B. Siegel Archiving Indeterminate Systems of Ecosystems and Improvisational Dance Strategies—Jennifer Monson Them: Recombinant Aesthetics of Restaging Experimental Performance—Thomas F. DeFrantz New Bodies, New Architecture—Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim Choreographic Angelology—André Lepecki Contributors Index

Reviews

""This volume presents a marvelous and diverse group of thinkers who, as artists and scholars, are reckoning with the dancing body as a site of knowing, remembering, and performing. Their comments yield deep insights into the nature of physicality and also the rich possibilities for writing about dance.""--Susan Leigh Foster, distinguished professor in the department of world arts and cultures/dance at UCLA ""This volume presents a marvelous and diverse group of thinkers who, as artists and scholars, are reckoning with the dancing body as a site of knowing, remembering, and performing. Their comments yield deep insights into the nature of physicality and also the rich possibilities for writing about dance.""--Susan Leigh Foster, distinguished professor in the department of world arts and cultures/dance at UCLA ""The Sentient Archive summons a feast of diverse voices, giving each the space to speak without forcing them into a single chorus. Instead, the book works like a landscape where these voices and their shimmering echoes intersect, inviting us in to join the unfinished, disappearing dance of movement and memory, of the sentient body and its archival impulse, its fragile yet insistent resistance to the slippage of time. Collectively, these voices testify to the whispers and the wild feelings in our bones that can hardly be put into words, but bear our social flesh forward.""--Elizabeth A. Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body

.. .the collection challenges and provokes thought about the nature of lived experiences, how they influence and mold one is (in the present and future), and how memories are retrieved. --E. McPherson, Choice Magazine

This volume presents a marvelous and diverse group of thinkers who, as artists and scholars, are reckoning with the dancing body as a site of knowing, remembering, and performing. Their comments yield deep insights into the nature of physicality and also the rich possibilities for writing about dance. --Susan Leigh Foster, distinguished professor in the department of world arts and cultures/dance at UCLA This volume presents a marvelous and diverse group of thinkers who, as artists and scholars, are reckoning with the dancing body as a site of knowing, remembering, and performing. Their comments yield deep insights into the nature of physicality and also the rich possibilities for writing about dance. --Susan Leigh Foster, distinguished professor in the department of world arts and cultures/dance at UCLA The Sentient Archive summons a feast of diverse voices, giving each the space to speak without forcing them into a single chorus. Instead, the book works like a landscape where these voices and their shimmering echoes intersect, inviting us in to join the unfinished, disappearing dance of movement and memory, of the sentient body and its archival impulse, its fragile yet insistent resistance to the slippage of time. Collectively, these voices testify to the whispers and the wild feelings in our bones that can hardly be put into words, but bear our social flesh forward. --Elizabeth A. Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body

Author Information

BILL BISSELL is the director of Performance at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. LINDA CARUSO HAVILAND is an associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and the founder and director of the dance program.

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