Matter, Life, Sex, and Death
Ecosexuality and Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11210579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Morris (0000-0002-9454-0096) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 335-358 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Chronicle (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-2526 • E-ISSN: 1532-4257 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01472526.2018.1518075 |
| OpenAlex | W2907878784 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In this article, I consider how ecosexuality as a contemporary, emergent critical framework prompts readings of Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring that complement and trouble the centralization of normative gender relations and human exceptionalism. Working with the prominent choreographic features instantiated within the dance, I consider how categories such as female and male, nonhuman and human, are both constituted and destabilized. Drawing from queer, feminist, new materialist, and psychoanalytic theories, I suggest that Bausch’s Rite of Spring provides ways of thinking sexuality ecologically, oriented toward the intensification of life beyond the survival of the human
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Human sexuality · Materialism · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Queer · Queer theory · Rite · Rite of passage · Sociology · Spring (device) · Theology · Anthropology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |