Unworking Choreography

The Notion of the Work in Dance

By: FrÃ©dÃ©ric Pouillaude

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Paperback | 8 June 2017

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There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, dance refers to a space other than art, considered both more frivolous and more fundamental than the artwork without ever quite attaining the status of a work. Unworking Choreography develops this idea and postulates an unworking as evidenced by a conspicuous absence of references to actual choreographic works within philosophical accounts of dance; the late development and partial dominance of the notion of the work in dance in contrast to other art forms such as painting, music, and theatre; the difficulties in identifying dance works given a lack of scores and an apparent resistance within the art form to the possibility of notation; and the questioning of ends of dance in contemporary practice
and the relativisation of the very idea that dance artistic or choreographic processes aim at work production.

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"Ecumenical yet provocative, studied yet playful, a contemporary classic that stands out for balancing the reality of dance against philosophy's struggle to theorize it...Essential reading."--Dominic McIver Lopies, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy, The University of British Columbia "Pouillaude moves dance studies forward toward new ways of theorizing how choreographic works exist without allowing us to neglect the precise historical forms in which they do indeed remain."--Carrie Noland, Professor of French, University of California - Irvine

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