Description
As we navigate the complexities of breathing in a world marked by social upheaval and environmental challenges, this issue seeks to illuminate the transformative power of breath in shaping our understanding of the performing arts. By bridging the gap between art, aesthetics and science, the issue promotes interdisciplinary scholarship and encourages new perspectives on the significance of respiration in artistic practices. International authors consider the cultural, historical and social implications of breath, highlighting its significance in different artistic traditions and contemporary movements. Through a diverse array of contributions, they examine the intersections of breath with themes of colonialism, racialization, politics of asphyxiation, necropolitics, resistance and artificial intelligence. The issue attempts to challenge conventional understandings of breath and respiration, fostering innovative dialogues around these concepts in the context of art and performance.
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1 Editorial
SOZITA GOUDOUNA
11 The Invention of Breath: Historicizing a cosmic metaphor through music and theatre
TOM PARKINSON
19 Suffocating Magic
MISCHA TWITCHIN
27 Bidesiya: Searching and (re)searching an inclusive framework of resistance for breathing
SATKIRTI SINHA
35 ‘Holding Breath’: Listening, care and connection across thresholds of experience in the wake of pandemic grief
POPPY DE SOUZA
41 Breathing with Ghosts: A decolonial reading of dance
GONCA YALÇIN
49 ‘Doesn’t Every Dying Person’s Last Breath Touch the Living?’: Breath performance and the politics of asphyxiation in contemporary Turkish theatre
CHRISTINA BANALOPOULOU
56 Hamlet’s ‘Dying’ Breaths and the Ars Memoria and Moriendi
STEPHANIE SHIRILAN
62 Drawing Our Breath in Pain to Tell Hamlet’s Story:
Dramaturgical perspectives
FREDDIE ROKEM
70 ‘Every Relation is a Manipulation of Breath’: Outside-in
embodied practice at the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre
Art Research in Puducherry, India
KARIN SHANKAR WITH VINAY KUMAR AND NIMMY
RAPHEL
78 Uneasy Breathing: Disrupting Contact Improvisation’s flow with Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones
CHRYS PAPAIOANNOU
86 Cultivating ‘氣 Qi’ in Connecting the More-Than-Human
World: Sensing breath through the practice of ‘Zhan Zhuang 站樁’
PENNY YIOU PENG
94 Dances of Breath: Martha Graham, vitalism and politics
ALEXANDRA KOLB
105 Inhaling the Other: Pneumatic intimacies and the racialization of breath
JULIA SCHADE
112 Breathwork in VestAndPage Performance Practice
ANDREA PAGNES AND VERENA STENKE
119 Artificial Respiration: An interdisciplinary dialogue on humanizing AI and future trends in performance
RODONIKI ATHANASIADOU AND BRAD KRUMHOLZ
128 Somewhere Between Breathing In and Breathing Out:
Making immersive audio work about Long COVID
RHIANNON JONES AND MICHAEL PINCHBECK
137 Ins(c)ense: Embodied cultural coding in the work of Azza El
Siddique and TJ Shin
LAUREL V. MCLAUGHLIN WITH AZZA EL SIDDIQUE AND TJ SHIN
146 THORAX, a Therapeutic Interactive Installation
MARION INGLESSI
148 The Voice of the Air
JESS RICHARDS
150 Black Lung
SAM TRUBRIDGE
156 Te Mana Motuhake o te Hā: Sovereignty of breath
CAROL BROWN & TIA REIHANA-MORUNGA
160 Dispossessed Breath: Visual and concrete poetry as Black
nonperformance
SADÉ POWELL
162 Phrenos – The Bank of Breath
FILOMENA BORECKÁ
164 Hooding a Hawk: Searching beyond the citta
HELEN COLLARD WITH DENYS BLACKER
166 Breathing as Intra-action. The case of Silent Days, Sleepless Nights
CARMEN PELLEGRINELLI WITH LAURA LUCIA PAROLIN
168 Choke (2019)
LENA CHEN AND MICHAEL CHARLES NEUMANN
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REVIEWS
170 Who Remembers the Nation?
JENNIFER JOAN THOMPSON
171 An Act of Becoming: Dance, doing dancing, dancing bodies
AMY SHEPPARD
173 Propagandist Educators, Germanic Repertoires and their
Dramaturgies
AZADEH SHARIFI
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175 Notes on Contributors
