The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

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.

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.

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
Fr?d?ric 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
Fabi?n 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