Aesthetic Strategies of Trance-gression

The Politics of Bodily Scenes of Ecstasy

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ID11222935
AuthorsSabine Huschka (0000-0001-9960-8494, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume51
Issue2
Pages4-17
Publication date2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDance Research Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0149767719000202
OpenAlexW2968212015
LanguageEN
References cited18

Choreographic bodies are empowered by modes of expansion and transgression. Focusing on the energetic processes that lead to such empowerment, this article discusses the perceptual politics of trancelike scenes in the work of contemporary European choreographers and performers. As a body-mobilizing choreographic strategy of out-of-body and out-of-mind experiences, trance is closely linked to critical and utopian ideas, bodily transgressions, and crossed boundaries. While Mary Wigman treats trance as an incantation which contains the powers that it unleashes, contemporary choreographers like Doris Uhlich or Meg Stuart, expose the body to powers that nearly disintegrate it. As opposed to Wigman-style modernism, contemporary dance stages movement as a tremendous event that exposes performers and audiences to experiences of transgression

Aesthetics · Art · Dance · Literature · Marine transgression · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Trance · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Theatre and Performance Studies

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