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Dancing Machines - Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Hardcover)
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Dancing Machines - Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Hardcover)
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The age of high-tech is haunted by an image from the last century
that developed in the three decades between the patenting of the
cinematographe and its turn toward sound: the dancing machine,
paradox of the ease of mechanization and its tortures, embodiment
of the motor and the automaton, image and fragmentation.
productivity and mechanical reproducibility, reveals its
development in European Modernism - Modernism drawn to dancers of
American, African and Asian origins, to Taylorism as well as to
Primitivism to cinema and to myth. This book traces the abstraction
and anonymity of the bodies making machines dance, in the codes of
modernisms graphic and choreographic and in the streamlined
gestures of industry, avant-garde art and entertainment. What
surfaces is dance's centrality to machine aesthetics and to its
alternatives as well as to the early elaboration of the machine
aesthetics and to its alternatives, as well as to the early
elaboration of the machine that would become the ultimate guarantor
of modern dance's de-mechanization, the motion picture camera.
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