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by Anna Leon (Author)
From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the first to consider expanded choreography from a trans-historical perspective. Through case studies on different periods of European dance history - ranging from Renaissance dance to William Forsythe's choreographic objects and from Baroque court ballets to digital choreographies - it traces a journey of choreography as a practice transcending its sole association with dancing, moving, human bodies.
Author Biography
Anna Leon is a dance historian working in and through research, curatorial theory projects, teaching and dance/performance dramaturgy. Currently, she is theory curator at Tanzquartier Wien and post-doctoral research fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she researches peripheralised dance modernities through a focus on ballet in early 20th-century Greece. Her curatorial work includes the ongoing projects Radio (non-)conference with Netta Weiser and Choreography+ with Johanna Hilari. She has taught at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Bern, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and SEAD. Her first book, Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories, was published in 2022.
