Format:
167 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781633450073
Series Statement:
Modern dance
Content:
Ralph Lemon is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s downtown dance and performance world in the past 40 years. A polymath and shape-shifter, Lemon combines dance and theater with drawing, film, writing, and ethnography in works presented on the stage, in publications, and in museums. He builds his politically resonant and deeply personal projects in collaboration with dance makers and artists from New York, West Africa, South and East Asia, and the American South. Lemon, who was born in Cincinnati and raised in Minneapolis, describes his explorations as a "search for the forms of formlessness." Absorbing and transmuting fractured mythologies, social history, and dance techniques from multiple geographies and decades, Lemon’s genre-transcending works perform an alchemy of past and present, reality and fantasy. This book, the first monograph on the artist, features a wide range of texts by scholars and performers, an original photo essay by Lemon, and an extensive chronology. Modern Dance is a series of monographs exploring dance makers in the twenty-first century. Each volume focuses on a single choreographer, presenting a rich collection of newly commissioned texts along with a definitive catalogue of the artist’s projects.
Note:
CONTENTS〈br〉Shall We Dance at MoMA? An Introduction / Kathy Halbreich 11〈br〉For Starters / Thomas J. Lax 19〈br〉Image Essay / Ralph Lemon 36〈br〉Easter Eggs: A Narrative Chronology / Adrienne Edwards and Thomas J. Lax 71〈br〉Dancing Community: Ralph Lemon’s Choreography, 1981–95 / Deborah Jowitt 89〈br〉The Geography Trilogy: Take Your Body Apart and Put It Back Together / Katherine Profeta 101〈br〉The Affective Physics of Encounter: Ralph Lemon and Walter Carter / André Lepecki 113〈br〉Toward a Supreme Constellation of Being: A One-Act Play / Okwui Okpokwasili 119〈br〉Fugitive Value: Ralph Lemon and Museums / Doryun Chong 127〈br〉Radical Dispossession: Ralph Lemon’s Scaffold Room / Bartholomew Ryan 137〈br〉Hard Enough to Enjoy / Fred Moten 145〈br〉I Set Out in the Morning / Will Rawls 149
Language:
English
Keywords:
Lemon, Ralph 1952-
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Lepecki, André 1965-
Author information:
Chong, Doryun 1973-
Author information:
Moten, Fred 1962-
Author information:
Halbreich, Kathy 1949-
