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Contemporary Dance Choreography and Spectatorship

Embodied Emotion

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Authors:
  1. Lucía Piquero Álvarez

    1. Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK

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  • Establishes an interdisciplinary dialogue between dance analysis and philosophy
  • Offers a unique view which links the experiences of choreographers and audience members
  • Argues for dance itself being a medium of emotional communication

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lucía Piquero Álvarez
    Pages 1-44

  3. The Analysis Model

    • Lucía Piquero Álvarez
    Pages 45-83

  4. Case Study 1: Melancholy Spirals in Russell Maliphant’s Afterlight (Part One) (2009): Emergence, Expressiveness, and Emotional Import

    • Lucía Piquero Álvarez
    Pages 85-126

  5. Case Study 2: The Poignant Tensions of Crystal Pite’s Dark Matters (2009): Embodiment, Enaction, and Emotion

    • Lucía Piquero Álvarez
    Pages 127-174

  6. Case Study 3: The Despair of Petrichor (2016): Choreographer, Analyst, Audience, Dancer

    • Lucía Piquero Álvarez
    Pages 175-218

  7. Conclusion

    • Lucía Piquero Álvarez
    Pages 219-234

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 235-240
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About this book

This book offers an approach which unites choreographic and spectatorial perspectives, and argues for dance itself—its materials, its structures—as a medium of emotional communication. Contemporary dance often seems to contend with issues of understanding, regularly being “read” in “languages” which alienate it. Even if emotion seems a significant part of people’s engagement with dance, its workings are often surrounded by an air of mysticism. Engaging with these issues, this study investigates the experience of emotion in Euro-American contemporary dance theatre. It questions its dependence on the artist’s personal emotions, and the assumption that it is mediated by representational meaning. Instead, this book proposes that the emotional import of dance emerges from an interplay between perceptual properties and symbolic elements in an embodied affective cognitive experience. This experience includes the background of the spectator as well as the context of work, choreographer, performer(s) and other creative agents.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK

    Lucía Piquero Álvarez

About the author

Lucía Piquero Álvarez is a researcher and choreographer - she has produced and been commissioned to create choreographic work internationally. Lucía  completed her PhD at the University of Roehampton, UK, in 2019, and was a lecturer in dance at the University of Malta between 2012–2022 and head of the dance department between 2019–2022. Lucía is currently a lecturer in performance psychology at Trinity Laban, UK, and senior lecturer at Dance City Newcastle, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contemporary Dance Choreography and Spectatorship

  • Book Subtitle: Embodied Emotion

  • Authors: Lucía Piquero Álvarez

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44962-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44961-1Published: 03 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44964-2Due: 03 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44962-8Published: 02 December 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 240

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Dance, Performing Arts, Contemporary Theatre, Performers and Practitioners

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