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Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia
Katherine Mezur and Emily Wilcox, Editors
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In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts.
Through the lens of "corporeal politics"—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and East Asian Names
Introduction
Part 1: Contested Genealogies
Chapter 1. Sexuality, Status, and the Female Dancer
Chapter 2. Mei Lanfang and Modern Dance
Chapter 3. The Conflicted Monk
Part 2: Decolonizing Migration
Chapter 4. Murayama Tomoyoshi and Dance of Modern Times
Fig. 10.1. Still from a 2006 performance of “Recollection” from Jiao (1995) at the National Theatre in Taipei. The dancers are Lee Shen-tzu 李聲慈 and Lee Ming-wei李銘偉. Photo courtesy Legend Lin Dance Theatre. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701.cmp.19.
Fig. 10.2. Still from a 2006 performance of “Possession” from Jiao (1995) at the National Theatre in Taipei. The dancers are Chen Chi-shun 陳啟順, Lee Ming-wei 李銘偉, Cheng Chieh-wen 鄭傑文, Tsai Che-Jen 蔡哲仁. Photo by Chin Cheng-tsai 金成財 courtesy Legend Lin Dance Theatre. Available at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11521701.cmp.20.