"(...) relies heavily on ethnographic material, including case studies based on Hanna's research, and on a basic framework of anthropological theory and nonverbal communication. The author's basic premise is that dance is human thought and feeling expressed through the instrument of the body. Her argument that dance is at once intentionnally organized physical movement, language, and a system of rules appropriate in different social situations is a provocative view that is likely to provide a foundation for future research in the field."--P. [4] de la couv.

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Dépouillement:
Introduction. Touching and being touched. Motion, emotion and modesof contact.
1. Touch. Rühren, berühren, aufruhr: stirring, stirring up, uprising / Jean-Luc Nancy. -- Figure, plasticity, affect / Niklaus Largier. -- Just like that: William Forsythe, between movement and langage / Erin Manning and Brian Massumi. -- Movements of touch in "Maybe forever"/ Gerko Egert. -- Cold burn (Teion Yakedo): on touch in contemporary japanese performance / Katherine Mezur. -- "The fault line" of touching / Krassimira Kruschkova.
2. Kinesthesia. On "inner touch"and the moving body: aistësis, kinaesthesis, and aesthetics / Mark Paterson. -- Choreographies with and without a choreographer: intuitive and intentional corporeal interactions / Hilge Landweer. -- "Listening": kinesthetic awareness in contemporary dance / Gabriele Brandstetter. -- Do you feel the same way too? / Corinne Jola. -- Empathy, contagion and affect: the role of kinesthesia in watching dance / Dee Reynolds.
3, Empathy. Affective modulation in politics, theory and art / Marie-Luise Angerer. -- Is the movement of the filmic image a sign of vitality? / Robin Curtis.-- Feeling in and out: contact improvisation and the politics of empathy / Ann Cooper Albright. -- "Touch me if you can": the practice of close emprace as a facilitator of kinesthetic empathy in argentine tango / Sabine Zubarik. -- Lost and found in interpretation: senses and emotions in contexts of argentine tango / Kornilia Chatzimasoura. -- Dancing tango: the weave of an emotional, corporal and social network / Sonia Abadi. -- Notes on contributors.

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