Actions, Movements and Gestures
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Bringing a philosophical mind set to the making, watching and thinking of dance, Noé Soulier's Actions, Movements and Gestures is nothing less than a dance treatise for the 21st-century.
Rethinking the tradition of classical ballet from modernist, postmodernist and contemporary perspectives, this English translation offers an array of analytical propositions that allow for multiple modes of looking at and creating dance movement. It offers an original rereading of classical and contemporary dance technique from the perspective of the practitioner-thinker and casts light on what it means to perceive and experience works of dance.
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Table of Contents
Preface to the English translation, by Noé Soulier
Foreword by Lucia Ruprecht
Note on the translation, by Anna Pakes
Introduction
1. Perceptual paradigms
2. Pathways and positions
3. Forms and trajectories
4. Choreographic values
5. Reflexive actions
6. Geometrical constraints and transformations of the body
7. Acting on oneself, towards oneself, towards the world
8. Extensions of ballet's geometrical structure
9. Local and global constraints
10. Problems and models
11. Focusing attention
12. Anatomy and mechanics
13. Implicit conditions
14. Complex intentions
15. Acts of reflexive thought
16. Complex intentions and the reflexivity of action
17. Practical goals
18. Non-hierarchical intentions
19. Exemplification and denotation
20. Interpretations
21. Sharing information
22. Recognition
23. Showing
24. Illusionist exemplification
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Foreword by Lucia Ruprecht
Note on the translation, by Anna Pakes
Introduction
1. Perceptual paradigms
2. Pathways and positions
3. Forms and trajectories
4. Choreographic values
5. Reflexive actions
6. Geometrical constraints and transformations of the body
7. Acting on oneself, towards oneself, towards the world
8. Extensions of ballet's geometrical structure
9. Local and global constraints
10. Problems and models
11. Focusing attention
12. Anatomy and mechanics
13. Implicit conditions
14. Complex intentions
15. Acts of reflexive thought
16. Complex intentions and the reflexivity of action
17. Practical goals
18. Non-hierarchical intentions
19. Exemplification and denotation
20. Interpretations
21. Sharing information
22. Recognition
23. Showing
24. Illusionist exemplification
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 168 |
| ISBN | 9798216560760 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Performance Philosophies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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