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Motion/Perception: William Forsythe's Spectatorial Shifts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Abstract

What do we mean when we talk about perception in/of dance? The movement of viewers of William Forsythe's dance and performance installation works affords perceptual change in multiple senses—sensory, cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic. This paper explores issues of action, perspective, and convention in the performance of dance spectatorship through a consideration of Forsythe's mobilized audiences. Moving within and between diverse disciplines, this paper simultaneously examines disciplinary specificity, variance, and crossover of the term “perception.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2007

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