Performative Body Spaces

Table of ContentsMarkus Hallensleben: Introduction: Performative Body SpacesBiopolitical Choreographies: Performing the Body as Racial and Political SpaceBozena Karwowska: Metaphors of Dancing and the Human Body in Nazi Concentration CampsPatricia Vertinsky: From Dance under the Swastika to Movement Education: A Study of Embodied CultureGabriele Brandstetter: Political Body Spaces in the Performances of William ForsytheJeremy Redlich: Reading Skin Signs: Decoding Skin as the Fluid Boundary between Self and Other in Yoko TawadaTranscultural Topographies: Transgressing the Body as Gendered and Cultural SpaceColleen Lanki: The Body in Space: Layers of Gender in Japanese Classical DanceYasuko Ikeuchi: Counter-Narrativity and Corporeality in Kishida Rio's Ito JigokuEiichiro Hirata: The Absence of Voices in the Theatre Space: Ku Nauka's Production of MedeaSabine Wilke: Staging Culture - Staging Nature: Polynesian Performance as Nature and Nature as Performance in HawaiiCorporeal Mediations: Visualizing the Body as Private and Public SpaceSima Godfrey: Moving through Fashion in Nineteenth-Century FranceKathryn Brown: Reading Bodies: Female Secrecy and Sexuality in the Works of Renoir and DegasRainer Rumold: Corporeal Topographies of the Image Zone: From Oskar Kokoschka's Murder of Metaphor to Georges Bataille's acéphaleBeth Pentney: Somatechnics and Makeover Reality TV: The Symbiotic Viewer/Participant RelationshipControlled Interfaces: Imaging the Body as Research Object and Artistic SpaceRobert Pritchard: The Body as Object: From Body Image to Meta-BodyHenry Daniel: Touched: Organization, Control and Emergence in Choreographed Performance SystemsList of ContributorsIndex