The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device, the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory, pedagogy, theory of history, reconstruction as a methodology, testimony and witnessing, theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature, and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.
"Contents 1. Introduction: The Power of Recall in A Post-Ephemeral Era Mark Franko Phenomenology of the Archive 2. Tracing Sense/Reading Sensation: an essay on imprints and other matter Martin Nachbar 3. Giving Sense to the Past: Historical D(ist)ance and the Chiasmatic Interlacing of Affect and Knowledge Timmy de Laet 4. Martha@...The 1963 Interview - Sonic Bodies, Seizures and Spells Richard Move Historical Fiction and Historical Fact 5. Reenactment, Reconstruction and Dance Historical Fictions Anna Pakes 6. Bound and Unbound: Reconstructing Merce Cunningham's Crises (1960) Carrie Noland 7. The Motion of Memory, the Question of History. Recreating Rudolf Laban's Choreographic Legacy Susanne Franco Proleptic Iteration 8. To the Letter: Lettrism, Dance, Reenactment Frédéric Pouillaude 9. Letters to Lila and Dramaturg's Notes on Future Memory: Inheriting Dance's Alternative Histories Kate Elswit with Rani Nair Investigative Reenactment: Transmission as Heuristic Device 10. (Re)enacting Thinking in Movement Maaike Bleeker 11. Not Made by Hand, or Arm, or Leg: The Acheiropoietics of Performance Branislav Jakovljevic 12. Pedagogic In(ter)ventions: On the Potential of (Re)enacting Yvonne Rainer's Continuous Project-Altered Daily (1969/70) in a Dance Education Context Yvonne Hardt Enacting Testimony/Performing Cultural Memory/ Spectatorship as Practice 13. What Remains of the Witness? Testimony as Epistemological Category: Schlepping the Trace Susanne Foellmer 14. Baroque Relations: Performing Silver and Gold in Daniel Rabel's ""Ballets of the Americas"" VK Preston 15. Reenacting Ritual Dance-Theater of India: The case of Kaisika Natakam Ketu H. Katrak with Anita Ratnam 16. Gloriously Inept and Satisfyingly True: Reenactment and the Practice of Spectating P.A. Skantze The Politics of Reenactment 17. Blasting out of the Past: the Politics of History and Memory in Janez's Reconstructions Ramsay Burt 18. Reenactment as Racialized Scandal Anthea Kraut 19. Reenacting Modernist Time: William Kentridge's The Refusal of Time Christel Staelpart Redistributions of Time in Geography, Architecture, and Modernist Narrative 20. Quito-Brussels: A Dancer's Cultural Geography Fabián Barba 21. Dance and the Distributed Body: Odissi and Mahari Performance Anurima Banerji 22. Imagined Re-embodiment between Text and Dance Susan Jones Epistemologies of Inter-temporality 23. Affect, Technique, and Discourse: Being Actively Passive in the Face of History: Reconstruction of Reconstruction Gerald Siegmund 24. Epilogue to an Epilogue: Historicizing the Re- in Danced Reenactment Mark Franko 25. The Time of Reenactment in Basse Danse and Bassadanza Seeta Chaganti 26. Time Layers, Time Leaps, Time Lost. Methodologies of Dance Historiography Christina Thurner Reenactment in/as Global Knowledge Circulation 27. (In)distinct Positions: The Politics of Theorizing Choreography Jens Richard Giersdorf 28. Scenes of Reenactment/Logics of Derivation in Dance Randy Martin 29. A Proposition for Reenactment: Disco Angola by Stan Douglas Catherine M. Soussloff 30. Dance (Re)searching its Own History: On the Contemporary Circulation of Past Knowledge Sabine Huschka Afterword Notes After the Fact Lucia Ruprecht"
Mark Franko, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance and Chair of Dance, Boyer College of Music and Dance (Temple University), has published six books: Martha Graham in Love and War: the Life in the Work; Excursion for Miracles: Paul Sanasardo, Donya Feuer, and Studio for Dance; The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s; Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics; Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body; The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography. Franko was editor of Dance Research Journal, edited Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, co-editor of Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines; and, founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series. He is recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance Award from the Congress in Research in Dance. Choreograping Discourses: A Mark Franko Reader (edited with Alessandra Nicifero) is forthcoing at Routledge.
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment
"""Overall, this volume provides an invaluable platform for profound engagement with a complex layering of possibilities and experiments in which documentary and remembered evidence of past dances dialogues with the reality of present-day corporeality."" -- Dance Research"
