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This volume collects academic as well as artistic explorations highlighting historical and contemporary approaches to the ›energetic‹ in its aesthetic and political potential. Energetic processes cross dance, performance art and installations. In contemporary dance and performance art, energetic processes are no longer mere conditions of form but appear as distinct aesthetic interventions. They transform the body, evoke specific states and push towards intensities.
International contributors (i.e. Gerald Siegmund, Susan Leigh Foster, Lucia Ruprecht) unfold thorough investigations, elucidating maneuvers of mobilization, activation, initiation, regulation, navigation and containment of forces as well as different potentials and promises associated with the ›energetic‹.
Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Energy and Forces as Aesthetic Interventions 7
How to Talk About Energy? 23
Dancing the Energy/Energizing the Dancing 41
Aesthetic Scenarios of Energeia 55
»I was seeking and finally discovered the central spring of all movement« 71
Energetic Forces as Aesthetic Forces 87
Cosmology of Forces, Performative Fields 99
Gesture, Energy, Critique 121
Training Neoliberal Dancers 137
Energy, Eukinetics, and Effort 155
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir's »Full Drop into the Body« 177
Working Processes in Dance 193
Notes on Contributors 207
List of Figures 211