Royona Mitra

Unmaking Contact (eBook, ePUB)

Choreographing South Asian Touch

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unmaking Contact interrogates contact, understood in Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight-sharing between two or more bodies through physical touch, by attending to power asymmetries that are foundational to this practice. By placing South Asian aesthetics, bodies, discourses, and philosophies on touch at the heart of its interrogation through the lenses of caste, ecology, faith, gender, and sexuality, author Royona Mitra argues for an intersectional, intercultural, and inter-epistemic understanding of contact, that may or may not involve touch. The book shifts and expands understandings of contact in dance-making through intercultural epistemologies that examine notions of touch and contact. In this book the term contact signals both a shorthand for CI and a shift away from it to more expansive choreographic considerations. It becomes an apparatus for dismantling power regimes; it is conjured as a catalyst to examine power in social relations; it appears as a fulcrum of ecological relationality; it arises as critical encounters full of generative and transformative potential; and finally, it manifests as community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197627792
• Artikelnr.: 75202911

Autorenporträt

Royona Mitra is Professor of Dance and Performance Cultures at Brunel University of London, UK. She is the author of Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism. Her research examines systems of oppression in dance and performance cultures at the intersections of bodies, social power regimes, and choreography as resistance. She contributes to the fields of diaspora and performance, South Asian dance and performance cultures, critical dance studies and performance studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Preface
* Introduction: Unmaking Contact
* Chapter 1
* Contact as Caste Justice: Theenda Theenda (2018) by Akila and The
Touch of Death
* Chapter 2
* Contact as Reframing Sociality: Rorschach Touch (2018) by Diya Naidu
and "Normalizing Touch"
* Chapter 3
* Contact as Ecological Relationality: Mirror Within (2022) by Nahid
Siddiqui and Shakila Maan and Touch Without Tactility
* Chapter 4
* Contact as Adda: Critical Encounters in #KAATENAHINKATTE Instareel
(2020) by LaWhore Vagistan and Digital Touching
* Afterwords: Against Conclusions
* References
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