Music and Motion

Interweaving Artistic Practice and Theory in Dance and Beyond

Stephanie Schroedter (ed.)

 
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How are music/sound and dance/movement interwoven in artistic processes? What kinds of models can be identified when studying the relations between them, and which aesthetic intentions correspond to them? Based on these questions, the contributors to this volume map a wide range of performances from different genres and styles, including those that transcend the stage. The aim is to discuss relationships between music, its physicality, and moving bodies in artistic practice. In doing so, they respond to a theoretical challenge: to conceptualize music as an invisible but audible motion from the perspective of perception and on the basis of visible movements that can be staged, choreographed, or improvised.

About the Editor

Stephanie Schroedter has been working at the interface of music, dance and theatre/performance since completing her doctorate in music and dance studies at the University of Salzburg (supported by the FWF Vienna and awarded with the “Dance Studies Prize North Rhine-Westphalia”). She has taught musicology, dance studies, as well as theater/performance and media studies. Additionally she was involved in several research projects supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). In 2015, she habilitated at the FU Berlin (Music and Dance Studies) and was appointed to a transdisciplinary professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2021.