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Dance and Silence: In Conversation

Dance and Silence: In Conversation

Artpradid, Vipavinee
Johnson, Petra

Hardcover

Series: Dance in Dialogue

DanceGeneral Music

ISBN10: 1350472085
ISBN13: 9781350472082
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jan 22 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The age of humans has gotten increasingly loud in terms of literal sound and environmental impact. Recognising silence as a disappearing ontological value, there is grief around our loss, but there is also a greater desire for opportunities to experience silence in its various diverse forms.

This book explores the critical dynamics of silence within choreography, performance and composition, comprising a series of conversations with researchers and practitioners, including choreographer Rosemary Lee, architect Richard Dougherty, architectural historian Pérez-Gómez, Natural Horn player Isaac Shieh, neuroscientist Tony Steffert and drummer and aerialist Jonny Leitch.

These conversations:

- question what has been silenced through the immobilisation of our bodies through movement-saving technologies;

- discover points of convergence through silence in seemingly separate and unrelated physical, conceptual and philosophical spaces;

- examine neglected intelligence and marginalised ways of knowing of gesture and movement

Ultimately, we come to see how dance, embodied modes of inquiry and corporeal-based understandings within socio-cultural and ecological contexts can propose pathways in the absence of sound.

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