The first article by Sabine Huschka, “Aesthetic Strategies of Trance-gression: The Politics of Bodily Scenes of Ecstasy,” examines the “perceptual politics of trance-like scenes” by contemporary European based choreographers and performers such as Doris Uhlich and Meg Stuart. Trance-like states involving out of body and out of mind experiences, as Huschka notes, are often associated with utopian ideas on the one hand (think of the Shakers, a religious sect that emerged from the Quaker movement), or with transgressing or crossing received borders or boundaries, on the other. The modern dance choreographer Mary Wigman, as the author notes, envisaged trance as a spell or an invocation that is set free from within its own internal source. Contemporary choreographers like Uhlich or Stuart on the other hand, as Huschka shows, “expose the body to powers that nearly disintegrate it.” The article deftly analyzes how these contemporary choreographers stage movement as a sensational occurrence that opens up both performers and audiences “to experiences of transgression.”
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1983
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Neuropharmacology
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1983-01-31
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Art, Medicine
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Semantic Scholar, PubMed
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