{"id":296,"date":"2015-03-16T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jampole.com\/OpEdgy\/?p=296"},"modified":"2015-03-16T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:22:53","slug":"dance-studies-colloquium-presents-anna-pakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jampole.com\/OpEdgy\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"DANCE STUDIES COLLOQUIUM presents Anna Pakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Colloquium_march17\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 17, 2015
\n5:30 – 7pm, CHAT Lounge
\nGladfelter Hall, 10th fl., Temple University\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Live-streaming of Anna’s talk at<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>www.temple.edu\/boyer\/dance\/RR<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Parking is available in a TU parking lot (hourly, reasonable) at Berks and 11th. Gladfelter Hall is the first high-rise building when entering TU’s main campus from Berks and 11th, two blocks from the Septa Regional Rail TU station.<\/p>\n

The 2014\/15 Dance Studies Colloquium continues\u00a0Tuesday, March 17, 2015\u00a0with\u00a0Anna Pakes on\u00a0Philosophy and the Work of Conceptual Dance<\/em><\/strong>
\nAbout\u00a0Philosophy and the Work of Conceptual Dance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cConceptual dance\u201d is a generic term used to designate a type of contemporary dance practice, emerging in the 1990s, that critiques theatrical representation, eschews conventional virtuosity and offers a reflexive, sometimes ironic, commentary on the conventions of dance practice. The term is\u00a0contested,\u00a0but continues in circulation despite the objections of some choreographers and theorists associated with the practices it names. Perhaps those objections stem partly from the conviction that challenging boundaries and categorisation is itself part of the\u00a0work<\/em>\u00a0done by the choreography of artists such as J\u00e9r\u00f4me Bel, Xavier Le Roy, Tino Sehgal and Boris Charmatz.<\/p>\n

In this talk, I also explore the implications of these choreographers\u2019 practices for the dance\u00a0work<\/em>\u00a0or choreography conceived as\u00a0product, in the light of a wider project exploring the ontology of dance works. Conceptual choreography is often said to be ontologically challenging. But can the precise nature of that challenge be more clearly articulated and does it pertain specifically to the choreographic work object? How and to what effect do these artists cast doubt on the work\u2019s status as a performable entity with a stable identity that could function as the focus of artistic appreciation?<\/p>\n

In the effort to answer these questions, I also reflect on the relationship between choreography and philosophy, and particularly on what work an analytic philosophical treatment of conceptual dance might be able to do.<\/p>\n

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About Anna Pakes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Pakes is Reader in Dance Studies at the University of Roehampton. Her teaching and research\u00a0is\u00a0focused on philosophy of dance, and she has published on the epistemology of artistic research, the mind-body problem and phenomenology of dance. Her forthcoming monograph explores, historically and from an analytic philosophical perspective, the nature of dances and choreographic works: what kinds of things they are, and what can be and what has been done with (and to) them.<\/p>\n

About Dance Studies Colloquium<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dance Studies Colloquium is a dynamic interactive speaker series designed to facilitate a dialogue about emerging topics and issues related to dance. It brings together artists and scholars to explore how we assimilate ideas and events and our resulting actions within the field of dance.\u00a0This free monthly event is held on Tuesdays from\u00a05:30-7:00pm\u00a0at the CHAT Lounge, Gladfelter Hall, 10th floor, Temple University (main campus).
\nAll are welcome. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served.
\nIf you would like more information about the Dance Studies Colloquium, please contact Dr.\u00a0Mark\u00a0Franko\u00a0at\u00a0tuf08933@temple.edu<\/a>\u00a0or Molly Shanahan at\u00a0tue82900@temple.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two Events Remaining in<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Dance Studies Colloquium 2015!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

March 31st<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kate Elswit<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Bristol, UK<\/p>\n

Dancing Across History’s Borders: Thoughts on Exile and Otherness By Way of Kurt Jooss<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

April 14th<\/strong><\/p>\n

Julie Malnig<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York University, New York City<\/p>\n

Race, Rock, and Revolution: Teenage Social Dance of the 1950s and Early 1960s<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, March 17, 2015 5:30 – 7pm, CHAT Lounge Gladfelter Hall, 10th fl., Temple University\u00a0 Live-streaming of Anna’s talk at\u00a0www.temple.edu\/boyer\/dance\/RR.\u00a0 Parking is available in a TU parking lot (hourly, reasonable) at Berks and 11th. Gladfelter Hall is the first high-rise building when entering TU’s main campus from Berks and 11th, two blocks from the Septa […]<\/p>\n

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