Kinaesthetic Empathy, Ethics and Care

Kinaesthetic Empathy, Ethics and Care develops a philosophy of dance that highlights the psychological, aesthetic and ethical significance of dancer-viewer interaction in the moment of performance.

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Christine Leroy is a lecturer in philosophy, with a PhD in philosophy of art from Panthéon Sorbonne University (Paris I). She specialises in philosophy of the body and is a former dancer. Her publications include three monographs: La Phénoménologie (2018), Phénoménologie de la danse. De la chair à l'éthique (2021), of which this volume is the English translation, and Le Corps (2022). She also co-edited with Chiara Palermo the anthology Pesanteur et portance. Une éthique de la gravité (2022). Her work focuses on kinaesthetic empathy and the ethical dimension of experiences of gravity and movement in art and clinical practice.

Anna Pakes is a translator and researcher, specialising in philosophy of dance. Her authored publications have included Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance (2020) and the co-edited anthology Thinking through Dance: The Philosophy of Dance Performance and Practices (2013), as well as numerous articles and essays on a range of dance philosophical themes. Her translation work has included books by Frédéric Pouillaude and Noé Soulier, as well as essays for Paris 8 Danse in Translation. She has a background in dance practice, having trained at the Centre national de la danse contemporaine in Angers, France.

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Kinaesthetic Empathy, Ethics and Care develops a philosophy of dance that highlights the psychological, aesthetic and ethical significance of dancer-viewer interaction in the moment of performance.

Inhalt

Introduction to the English Translation

Translator's Preface

Foreword: On Gravity by Angelin Preljocaj

Introduction

PART I. THE AESTHETICS OF EMPATHY

Chapter 1. Prelude by way of example: Wim Vandekeybus's Blush

Chapter 2. Kinaesthetic empathy and dance theory: fundamentals of a concept

Chapter 3. Aesthetic emotion in dance: kinaesthetic experience of the flesh

Chapter 4. Between bodies: transitional space and potential space - the space of play

Chapter 5. Playing with gravity

PART II. A QUESTION OF ETHICS: UP-HOLDING, SUPPORT AND CARE

Chapter 6. Holding and handling: reciprocal care

Chapter 7. Care for being

Chapter 8. Up-holding and care

Chapter 9. The ethical force of dance

Chapter 10. Maurice Hamington and the embodied epistemology of care

Chapter 11. From kinaesthetic empathy to care for the other: DV8's The Cost of Living

PART III. HEALING THE SELF, REPAIRING THE FLESH: ESIRE'S (RE-)DESIGN

Chapter 12. Dance and care of the self: from the weight of the flesh to an ethics of subjectivation

Chapter 13. Overture by way of a conclusion: movement as ethical restoration