Overview
- Charts the 20-year career of French choreographer Jérôme Bel
- Provides an overview of his choreographic oeuvre as well as in-depth analysis
- Delves into the relationship between artistic practice and theory
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: New World Choreographies (NWC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
Bel has developed a singular discourse on dance that has often been labelled 'conceptual'. By reducing the stage elements in his performances to a minimum, his work explores the implications of dance as an art form that has, since the heyday of modernism, based its guiding principles on the laws of nature. Bel addresses the question of power relations in dance by working through the questions of authorship and various forms of subjectivity dance produces. Offering a unique opportunity to ground seemingly abstract a
cademic theories in a specific embodied artistic practice, this study explores the intersection between artistic practice and theory.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gerald Siegmund is Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. He is author of numerous articles on contemporary dance and theatre performance, as well as editor of the book William Forsythe – Denken in Bewegung (2004). His other publications include Abwesenheit. Eine performative Ästhetik des Tanzes (2006), and Dance, Politics, and Co-Immunity (with Stefan Hölscher, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jérôme Bel
Book Subtitle: Dance, Theatre, and the Subject
Authors: Gerald Siegmund
Series Title: New World Choreographies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55272-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55271-6Published: 18 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55272-3Published: 06 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-9266
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9274
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 286
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Dance, Performing Arts