The Sentient Archive (eBook)

amp;lt;P>BILL BISSELL is the director of Performance at The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage. LINDA CARUSO HAVILAND is an associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and the founder and director of the dance program.</P>

<P>Foreword—Paula Marincola<BR>Acknowledgments<BR>Introduction: A Body Comparable—Bill Bissell and Linda Caruso Haviland<BR>Considering the Body as Archive—Linda Caruso Haviland<BR>I. BODIED KNOWING<BR>Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland<BR>Everyone Has Something to Tell—Alain Platel<BR>Stalking Embodied Knowledge—Then What?—Tomie Hahn<BR>The Sensing and Knowing Body: Choreographing Action and Feeling—Juhani Pallasmaa<BR>Use Me—Meg Stuart<BR>A Body-Mind Centering® Approach to Movement through Embodiment—Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen<BR>Pleasure—Ralph Lemon<BR>Slow—Ralph Lemon<BR>II. MEMORY, HISTORY, AND RETRIEVAL<BR>Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland<BR>Memory Has Its Way with Me—Barbara Dilley<BR>The Body Makes You Remember—Ivo van Hove<BR>Touching History—Ann Cooper Albright<BR>My Discovery of Dance—Allegra Kent<BR>We Dance What We Remember: Memory in Perceiving and Performing Contemporary Dance —Catherine J. Stevens<BR>The Stories in Our Bodies—Emily Johnson<BR>III. THE BODY IN THE ARCHIVE<BR>Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland<BR>&amp; We Should Live and Be Well: Five Artist Statements, 1995 – 2007—David Gordon<BR>The Embodied Performance of Museum Visiting: Sacred Temples or Theaters of Memory?—Laurajane Smith<BR>Sideways Glances: Painting and Dancing—Sarah Crowner<BR>Leap Before You Look: Honoring the Libretto in Giselle and Apollo—Nancy Goldner<BR>Body as Signifier—Patricia Hoffbauer<BR>IV. PERFORMING THE ARCHIVE—Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland<BR>Untitled—Bebe Miller<BR>My Body, the Archive—Deborah Hay<BR>Choreographing Somatic Memories and Spatial Residues—Jayachandran Palazhy<BR>Tremulous Histories—Jenn Joy<BR>Exit/Exist—Embodiment—Gregory Maqoma<BR>V. AFTERLIVES AND TRANSFORMATIONS<BR>Introduction by Linda Caruso Haviland<BR>Pavilion of Secrets—Marcia B. Siegel<BR>Archiving Indeterminate Systems of Ecosystems and Improvisational Dance Strategies—Jennifer Monson<BR>Them: Recombinant Aesthetics of Restaging Experimental Performance—Thomas F. DeFrantz<BR>New Bodies, New Architecture—Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim<BR>Choreographic Angelology—André Lepecki<BR>Contributors<BR>Index</P>