Moving Together
Making and Theorizing Contemporary Dance
- The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude
- Spaces for Criticism
- Interrupting the City
- Imaginative Bodies
- The Practice of Dramaturgy
- Mobile Autonomy
- In-between Dance Cultures
- No Culture, No Europe
- Arts Education Beyond Art
- Aesthetic Justice
- Alternative Mainstream
- The Ethics of Art
- Institutional Attitudes
- Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm
- Community Art
- Moving Together
- Repressief Liberalisme
- The Art of Civil Action - Political Space and Cultural Dissent
- Commonism - A New Aesthetics of the Real
- The Future of the New
- Contemporary Artist Residencies: Reclaiming Time and Space
- When Fact is Fiction – Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
- Design Dedication
- Nearness - Art And Education After Covid-19
- Nabijheid - Kunst en onderwijs na Covid-19
- The Aesthetics of Ambiguity
Published by Valiz/Antennae Series
Text by Rudi Laermans.
Moving Together examines contemporary dance from both a theoretical and a practical perspective, with interactions between the two. The author analyses three important tendencies in contemporary dance: "pure" dance, dance theatre, and (self-) reflexive dance. He proposes a theoretical, conceptual framework, and through extensive dialogues with choreographers he investigates how artistic cooperation results in dance.
"Clearly written, meticulously researched and theoretically enriching, Rudi Laermans' first-hand accounts of key performances by some of the most influential names that have defined contemporary choreography since the mid-1980s make us see how crucial the Flemish dance scene has been for the development of contemporary experimental dance-and therefore, how it has also been a strong influence in those discourses that inform the reception and perception of international dance today. Absolutely essential." --André Lepecki, Associate Professor in Performance Studies, New York University.
Rudi Laermans is Professor of Social Theory at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and a regular guest teacher at P.A.R.T.S., the Brussels-based international school for contemporary dance headed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. As an academic, he has published widely in both national and international journals and books within the areas of social theory, cultural sociology and the sociology of the arts. Also active as a critic and essayist, he published numerous articles on contemporary dance and is one of the leading voices on, and partly also within, the Flemish dance field.