Steve Paxton's “Interior Techniques
Contact Improvisation and Political Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8090314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Turner (0000-0001-5055-9644, Robert Turner is a vagrant researcher, professional dancer, and circus performer. Beginning his dance training while completing a PhD in Government at Cornell University, he has gone on to work with ballet, modern, and circus companies in North America and Europe, including Kristina Isabelle Dance, Zero Gravity Circus, and Cirque du Soleil. Through this performance work and study, Robert has come to understand dance in a political sense, and politics as another from of movement and contact between people.) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 123-135 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/dram_a_00007 |
| OpenAlex | W1988970055 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 1 |
Steve Paxton's contact improvisation, though meant to develop our “habit of attending” to sensations and reflexes to overcome American democracy's conditioning in “voluntary slavery,” has instead mainly become an apolitical, “spiritual” practice. But CI could, by showing the relation between culture and conscious experience, radicalize participation in all our relations
Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Habit · Improvisation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Relation (database · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |