Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World (Dance in Dialogue)

What can dance contribute to contemporary political economy and to its critique? What can current conversations in the field of political economy contribute to conversations on dance and its role within the political economy? What new insights can the connections between the two fields offer that can help imagine a world beyond the present? Setting out to engage with all of these questions, this book offers an original investigation into the relation between dance and political economy, looking in particular at the points where politics, economics and culture intersect. Arising from live conversations and exchanges, this book has been informed by contributions from leaders in the fields in dialogue with one another, including: Dance and Performance scholars: Melissa Blanco Borelli (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK / University of Maryland, College Park, US) Alexandrina Hemsley & Jamila Johnson-Small Tavia Nyong'o (Yale University, US) Political Theory/Economics/Social Theory Contributors: Elena Loizidou (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Nina Power Usva Seregina (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures Acknowledgments Foreword: A Gesture Opening Thoughts and Introductions Provocations Chapter 1: Performance, Dance and Political Economy: A Provocation Chapter 2: Recognizing Race and Class in Dance: Gonzalez Response to Paramana Dialogue 1: Control of Bodies Chapter 3: A World beyond the Captured Body Chapter 4: Choreographing Rage Dialogue 2: Commodification of Bodies Chapter 5: Honesty and the Body Chapter 6: Feeling My Way Through Several Beginnings Dialogue 3: Rest, Productivity and Survival Chapter 7: Sleepwalking: Toward a New Corporeality of Dance Chapter 8: It Only Happens in Daylight Dialogue 4: Communal Disruptions Chapter 9: Community, Coloniality and Convivencia in the Festival de Danza de Santa María la Antigua del Darién, Colombia Chapter 10: Changing Our Bodies’ Relatio­nships to Reality Dialogue 5:: Anarchic Inversions of Neoliberal Economies Chapter 11: The “End,” “Lived Time” or How to Say Goodbye to Your World, A World Chapter 12: Dance, Anarchism, Mutual Aid Dialogue 6: Escaping Capitalism? Chapter 13: Breaking the Illusion of Reality: Exploring Reiterations of the Performance of Consumption Chapter 14: From Exchange to Freedom and Back: No Guarantees Group Conversation Chapter 15: In Conversation—Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World Contributors About the Editors Index "This book examines the relation between bodies and political economies at micro and macro levels. It stands in the space between ends and beginnings - some long-desired, such as the end of capitalism and racism, and others long-dreaded, such as the climate catastrophe - and reimagines what the world can be like instead. It offers an original investigation into the relation between performance, dance, and political economy, looking at the points where politics, economics, ethics, and culture intersect. Arising from live conversations and exchanges among the contributors, this book is written in an interdisciplinary and dialogical manner by leading scholars and artists in the fields of Performance Studies, Dance, Political Theory, Economics, and Social Theory: Marc Arthur, Melissa Blanco Borelli, Anita Gonzalez, Alexandrina Hemsley, Jamila Johnson-Small, Elena Loizidou, Tavia Nyong'o, Katerina Paramana, Nina Power, and Usva Seregina. Their critical and creative examinations of the relation between bodies and political economy offer insights for both imagining and materializing a world beyond the present."-- Provided by publisher