Unmaking Contact
Choreographing South Asian Touch
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 May 2025
- ISBN 9780197627761
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Weight 535 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 b&w halftones 700
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Short description:
Unmaking Contact interrogates ?contact? through the examination of South Asian aesthetics, bodies, discourses, and philosophies on physical and intersubjective touch and relations within dance, and shifting its conceptualisation beyond contact improvisation.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Unmaking Contact
Chapter 1
Contact as Caste Justice: Theenda Theenda (2018) by Akila and The Touch of Death
Chapter 2
Contact as Reframing Sociality: Rorschach Touch (2018) by Diya Naidu and ?Normalizing Touch?
Chapter 3
Contact as Ecological Relationality: Mirror Within (2022) by Nahid Siddiqui and Shakila Maan and Touch Without Tactility
Chapter 4
Contact as Adda: Critical Encounters in
KAATENAHINKATTE Instareel (2020) by LaWhore Vagistan and Digital Touching
Afterwords: Against Conclusions
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