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Touch is a fundamental element of dance. The (time) forms and contact zones of touch are means of expression both of self-reflexivity and the interaction of the dancers. Liberties and limits, creative possibilities and taboos of touch convey insights into the ‘aisthesis’ of the different forms of dance: into their dynamics and communicative structure, as well as into the production and regulation of affects. __Touching and Being Touched__ assembles seventeen interdisciplinary papers focusing on the question of how forms and practices of touch are connected with the evocation of feelings. Are these feelings evoked in different ways in tango, Contact improvisation, European and Japanese contemporary dance? The contributors to this volume (dance, literature, and film scholars as well as philosophers and neuroscientists) provide in-depth discussions of the modes of transfer between touch and being touched. Drawing on the assumptions of various theories of body, emotion, and senses, how can we interpret the processes of tactile touch and of being touched emotionally? Is there a specific spectrum of emotions activated during these processes (within both the spectator and the dancer)? How

Who reads Touching and Being Touched : Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance and Movement?

Author

Brandstetter, Gabriele (editor);Egert, Gerko (editor);Zubarik, Sabine (editor)

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110291865

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Psychology, Medical