While Connnerton's theorisation has been very influential and persuasive, I argue that there is some scope for improving his ideas about the changeability of bodily memory and the Bloody Sunday case represents an interesting empirical example of how embodied remembrance reflects and responds to transformations in the wider socio-political context. The class is a dance class, with math being discussed. The work of Paul Connerton represents a crucial analytical starting point in a growing number of studies examining the body as site of memory. Following the warm up, we play games with shapes and practice moving through space, all the time focussing on the idea of expanding/compressing into and away from our body’s core. Every movement made and remembered shapes how an organism grows what it senses and how it responds. As well, abstract dance especially calls attention to visual patterns, reminding us of abstract painting. Each repetition of a movement deepens and strengthens the pattern of mind-body coordination that making that movement requires and the repetition also defines avenues along which future attention and energy flow. Last week, I had the pleasure of reviewing the first work in the series, Fase, and am now sharing some thoughts on de Keersmaekers seminal 1983 production of Rosas Danst Rosas. (Check out my lists of social-emotional and artistic skills for students to learn through dance) Throughout my career I’ve studied and taught in a wide range of settings: studios, colleges, K-12 schools, conservatories, and community programs. Since dance entails a lot movements, it uses the very same elements, space, time, and energy. As part of this year’s Lincoln Center Festival, Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker’s dance troupe Rosas is performing a four-part retrospective of the charismatic choreographer’s early works. Thus, all movements occur in time, through space, and with effort (Schrader, 1996). Moving through Time and Space: Performing Bodies in Derry, Northern IrelandĪbstract This paper examines the embodied remembrance of Bloody Sunday (1972), when thirteen civilians were shot dead by British soldiers while peacefully marching against internment. For one thing, dance focuses on the human form, i.e., human bodies moving through time and space, shaping space as it were, reminding us of kinetic sculpture (Martin and Jacobus, 1997, p. ELEMENTS OF DANCE - the human body is living in the time and space, and it exhibits some effort.
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