- Offers the first comprehensive analysis and critical discussion of Burrows' work
- Contextualises Burrows in relation to American early post-modern dance and British New Dance
- Includes a substantial corpus of interviews and discussions with Burrows and his collaborators carried out over the course of a decade
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- About this book
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The first monograph on the work of British choreographer Jonathan Burrows, this book examines his artistic practice and poetics as articulated through his choreographic works, his writings and his contributions to current performance debates. It considers the contexts, principles and modalities of his choreography, from his early pieces in the 1980s to his latest collaborative projects, providing detailed analyses of his dances and reflecting on his unique choreomusical partnership with composer Matteo Fargion.
Known for its emphasis on gesture and humour, and characterised by compositional clarity and rhythmical patterns, Burrows’ artistic work takes the language of choreography to its limits and engages in a paradoxical, and hence transformative, relationship with dance’s historical and normative structures. Exploring the ways in which Burrows and Fargion’s poetics articulates movement, performative presence and the collaborative process in a ‘minor’ register, this study conceptualises the work as a politically compelling practice that destabilises major traditions from a minoritarian position. - About the authors
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Daniela Perazzo Domm is Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies at Kingston University London, UK, where her specialist areas include dance theory and performance philosophy.
- Reviews
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“Outstanding on two counts, this long awaited in-depth study of one of the most prominent experimental dance artists today illuminates genealogically Jonathan Burrows’ oeuvre, especially its intricate workings of form, poetry and poetics, gesture and community. Perazzo Domm redraws a rich mosaic of concepts from radical continental philosophy – from minor regimes of authorship to affective solidarity – resulting in an eloquent contribution to dance and performance studies.” (Bojana Cvejić, Professor of Dance and Dance Theory, Oslo Academy of Arts KHiO, author of Choreographing Problems (Palgrave, 2015))
“This book presents a thorough and convincing reading of the work of one of Britain’s most influential, progressive choreographers. Drawing on her deep knowledge of Jonathan Burrows’ work, Daniela Perazzo Domm analyses its radicalism by working with recent French philosophy and Italian political theory.” (Ramsay Burt, Professor of Dance History, De Montfort University)
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Dance and/as Poiesis, Poetry, Poetics
Pages 1-30
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Resisting from Within: Dance Canons and Their Deterritorialisation
Pages 31-73
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Reduction, Repetition, Returns: The Trouble of Minimalism
Pages 75-117
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Rhythm as Friendship: Movement, Music and Matteo
Pages 119-148
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Duets and (Self-)portraits: Choreographing the Im/personal
Pages 149-174
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Jonathan Burrows
- Book Subtitle
- Towards a Minor Dance
- Authors
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- Daniela Perazzo
- Series Title
- New World Choreographies
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-27680-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-27680-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-27679-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-27682-9
- Series ISSN
- 2730-9266
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 232
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
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