Choreographing Discourses

<p>Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly changing field this Reader offers an important resource in the dynamic scholarly fields of Dance and Performance Studies.</p><p>What makes this volume especially appropriate for undergraduate and graduate teaching is its critical focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century dance artists and choreographers – among these Oskar Schlemmer Merce Cunningham Kazuo Ohno William Forsythe Bill T. Jones and Pina Bausch some of the most high-profile European American and Japanese artists of the past century. The volume’s constellation of topics delves into controversies that are essential turning points in the field (notably <i>Still/Here </i>and <i>Paris is Burning</i>) which illuminate the spine of the field while interlinking dance scholarship with performance theory film visual and public art.</p><p>The volume contains the first critical assessments of Franko’s contribution to the field by André Lepecki and Gay Morris and an interview incorporating a biographical dimension to the development of Franko’s work and its relation to his dance and choreography. Ultimately this Reader encourages a wide scope of conversation and engagement opening up core questions in ethics embodiment and performativity.</p>