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portada Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780197627778

Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch

Royona Mitra (Author) · Oxford Univ Pr · Paperback

Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch - Royona Mitra

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Synopsis "Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch"

Unmaking Contact interrogates "contact", understood in Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight-sharing between two or more bodies through physical touch, by attending to power asymmetries that are foundational to this practice. By placing South Asian aesthetics, bodies, discourses, and philosophies on touch at the heart of its interrogation through the lenses of caste, ecology, faith, gender, and sexuality, author Royona Mitra argues for an intersectional, intercultural, and inter-epistemic understanding of contact, that may or may not involve touch. The book shifts and expands understandings of "contact" in dance-making through intercultural epistemologies that examine notions of touch and contact. In this book the term contact signals both a shorthand for CI and a shift away from it to more expansive choreographic considerations. It becomes an apparatus for dismantling power regimes; it is conjured as a catalyst to examine power in social relations; it appears as a fulcrum of ecological relationality; it arises as critical encounters full of generative and transformative potential; and finally, it manifests as community.

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