Aging Body in Dance

Gabriele BRANDSTETTERGabriele Brandstetter is Professor of Theater and Dance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focus is on: History and aesthetics of dance from the 18th century until today, theatre and dance of the avant-garde; contemporary theatre and dance, performance, theatricality and gender differences; concepts of body, movement and image. Winner of Germany's most prestigious research funding prize, Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Prize 2004. Since 2008 she has been co-director of the International Centre "Interweaving performance cultures." Nanako NAKAJIMANanako Nakajima is a dance researcher, dance dramaturg, traditional Japanese dance teacher Kannae Fujima, a Jacobs Pillow Dance festival 2006 Research Fellow, visiting scholar at Tisch School NYU 06. She is currently a fellow of International Research Center »Interweaving Performance Cultures«, Freie Universitaet Berlin and lecturer at Aichi University, Japan. She curated and organized international dance symposia entitled "The Aging Body in Dance" in Berlin (2012) and in Tokyo (2014), and gave lectures on aging and dance at various venues including Dance Congress 2013.

Make(s) important contributions to age as it pertains to dance.Megan V. Nicely, The Drama Review, Volume 62, Number 3, Fall 2018

• Introduction, Gabriele Brandstetter and Nanako NakajimaOverview of the Aging Body in Dance, Nanako NakajimaSection I: The Aging Body in the late 20th century: American Postmodern Dance, German Dance, and Japanese Dance Yvonne Rainer, The Aching Body in DanceRamsay Burt, Yvonne Rainer’s Convalescent Dance: On valuing ordinary, everyday, and unidealised bodily states in the context of the aging body in danceJohannes Odenthal, Der Tanz ist eine Metapher des Lebens (Dance is a Metaphor of Life) Tamotsu Watanabe, Flowers Blooming in the Time of AgingSection II: Alternative Dancability: Dis/Ability and Euro-American Performance Ann Cooper Albright, The Perverse Satisfaction of Gravity Jess Curtis, Dancing the Non/Fictional Body Kaite O'Reilly, SILENT RHYTHM: A Reflection on the aging, changing body, and sensory impairment as a source of creativity and inspirationSusanne Foellmer, Bodies' Borderlands: Right in the Middle. Dis/Abilities on Stage Section III: Aging and Body Politics in Contemporary Dance Petra Kuppers, Somatic Politics: Community Dance and Aging DanceKikuko Toyama, Old, weak, and invalid: dance in inaction Janice Ross, Dance and Aging: Anna Halprin Dancing Eros at the End of Life Section IV: Perspectives of Interweaving Mark Franko, Why are Hands the Last Resort of the Aging Body in Dance? Notes on the Modernist Gesture and the Sublime Nanako Nakajima, Yoshito Ohno’s Figures of Life