Re-Choreographing Cortical and Cartographic Maps : Going West to Find East Going East to Find West.

Cover -- Re-Choreographing Cortical &amp -- Cartographic Maps: Going West to Find East Going East to Find West -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- ACT 1 -- 1. Autoethnography as a Methodological and Ideological Starting Point -- A beginning of sorts -- Will the artist please stand up? -- Introducing the map -- Microcosm vs. macrocosm -- Mediating difference -- Choreographic organization -- 2. The Hypothesis Explained -- Theory, perception, process and practice -- Implications -- Embodiment and disembodiment -- Science, art, culture and the transdisciplinary mandate -- Self-knowing -- Movement, language and non-discursive thinking -- Mirroring -- Preliminary conclusions -- 3. Further Presuppositions and Explorations in Search of a Theory of Practice -- Revisiting the hypothesis -- Shango Meets Ogun -- Performing disembodiment -- Futurist Equation -- The futurist/humanist condition -- Re-cognizing/re-membering -- The lived machine -- Performing consciousness -- Scales and dimensions, movement and sound -- Further conclusions -- ACT 2 -- 4. Transnet -- Performing art, performing science, transdisciplinary approaches to performance -- Significant contributions -- Choreography as transdisciplinary Practice-as-Research -- 5. New Performance Maps -- The Touched Project: Organization, control and emergence -- in choreographed performance systems Touched -- t2 -- t2_echo -- Imprint -- Imprint II -- Embodied choreographic knowing -- 6. Going West to Find East -- Choreographing from the underside -- Haikai, Encounters and Here Be Dragons (Stage I Creative Preview) -- Barca: el otro lado -- A barca: Reaching back to go forward -- ambos lados -- Isabella's Dream -- ACT 3 -- 7. Contemporary Nomads -- Nomadism -- nómadas -- nómadas 2018_excerpts -- On Home -- Multiple presences: Movement through space/time holes.

The real and the virtual, reality and the dream -- Performing the self: Movement as an unfolding and initiating of thought -- An Epilogue: Fitting [Out-fitting] In -- Who is he fooling and what is he really doing there? -- Who am I and why am I here? -- Fitting [Out-fitting] In -- So, what's your background? -- Where are you from? I mean, where are you really from? -- Oh! You're a Professor? What do you teach? -- What's ahead? -- Finale -- Appendix A: Artisitic Works by the Author -- Multi-year research projects referenced -- Short-term stand-alone works mentioned -- Appendix B -- Map A -- Map B -- Map C -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

A substantial contribution to current discourses in dance, choreography and performance, especially in the area of Practice-as-Research. Reflects the perspective of the author as scholar, choreographer, performer, and arts practitioner, with an extensive background in both the professional world of dance and the intellectual academy. 49 b&w illlus. Click here to view the free chapter: 'An Epilogue: Fitting [Out-fitting] In'.

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