Music and Motion

Interweaving Artistic Practice and Theory in Dance and Beyond

Stephanie Schroedter (ed.)


Preface

Stephanie Schroedter

Introduction: Music for/into/as Motion – and Vice Versa. Exploring the Field in Artistic Practice and Theory

Stephanie Schroedter
 

Case Studies from the Historical Avantgarde to Contemporary Practices


Music, Dance, and Agency in Early French Comic Film

Sophie Benn

Forced Freedom. Choreography and Music in Igor Stravinsky’s Early Ballet Compositions

Christoph Flamm

“The Creation of New Forms”. Igor Stravinsky’s Choreodrama The Rite of Spring in the Context of the “Theater Reform around 1900”

Leila Zickgraf

Petrushka’s Survival

Jeremy Coleman

“His dances were composed”. On the Choreographies Séquence and Recueil by Jean Cébron

Anja K. Arend and Matthias Geuting

Dramatic Statement and Theatrical Expression. Esthetics of Movement in Klebe/Gsovsky’s Menagerie and Zimmermann/Roleffs Kontraste

Adrian Kuhl

Related Sounds. Adriana Hölszky’s Roses of Shadow and Deep Field in Martin Schläpfer’s Choreography

Barbara Dobretsberger

Musicians as Performers. On the Relationship Between Dance and Music in the Works of Stephanie Thiersch and Brigitta Muntendorf

Gerald Siegmund

Moving to the Beat of Its Own Drum. Contemporary Theatre Music in Relation to Gesture and Space

David Roesner

Composing and Choreographing the Audience in Contemporary Music Theater

Fabian Czolbe

Tarantella Helvetica. Representational Aspects of Animal Movement in Twentieth Century Opera Exemplified by Adaptations of Gotthelf’s Black Spider

Leo Dick

Dissolving and Emphasizing the Physical in the Digital Age. Reality, Appearance, and Virtual Perspectives in Alexander Schubert’s Work

Rainer Nonnenmann

The Danced Sound Sculpture

Julia H. Schröder

Openings in A Love Supreme

Daphne Leong
 

Artistic Research with Sound and Performative Movement


Mickey Mouse is Innocent. Reciprocal Exchange in the Art of Dance Accompaniment

Philip Feeney

Contact Improvisation. Gestural Interactions in the Performative Encounter between Dance and Music

Ivo I. Berg

The Dialogue of Sound and Movement in Improvisation

Simon Rose and Ingo Reulecke

CORPUS Versus BODY. The Cello as a Corporeal Performative Instrument

Ulrike Brand

Missing, Not Knowing, Taking Care Reflections on A Study on Effort

Keir GoGwilt and Bobbi Jene Smith

SoundWave Surfing. Gaming, Interactivity, and Contemporary Dance

John Toenjes

Six Memos for a Pianist and a Self-Playing Piano. Sketches on an Artistic Investigation of Spatial Phenomena

Hanne Pilgrim, Adrián Artacho, Leonhard Horstmeyer, and Markus Kupferblum

Mutated Manipulations. A Musical-Gestural Perspective

Winnie Huang

Embodying Expression in Classical Instrumental Performance Practice

Barbara Lüneburg
 

Music/Sound and Dance/Motion: Relations between Theory and Practice


Choreomusical Research as an Artistic Translation Process. Interferences Between Music and Movement

Stephanie Schroedter

Hearing the Dance and Watching the Music. Echoes and Anticipations

Stephanie Jordan

Tango on Stage and on the Dance Floor. Choreomusical Relations in tango argentino Music and Dance Practices

Kendra Stepputat

Dances with Tables. Materialities of Dance Practices in Metal during COVID-19

Florian Heesch and Daniel Suer

Listening through Seeing. Perceptual Aspects from the Field of Eurhythmics

Dorothea Weise

Rhythm and Meter in Dance as Bergsonian durée

Amy Ming Wai Tai

Rhythm and Relation. The Choreographic Politics of Sound and Motion

Gerko Egert

Conducting Experiments. Theorizing Sound through Conductors’ Movement in Experimental Music

Drake Andersen

Bundling Meaningfulness in a Felt-Bodily Manner. Structured Movement as Aisthetic Labor

Birgit Abels

Musical Dimensions of Motion-Based Interindividual Behaviors. Situated in an Interactive Music Environment

Jin Hyun Kim and Marta Rizzonelli

Intertwined. Resonance, Affect, and Resistance in Open-Form Music–Dance Performance

Jan Schacher
 
 

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