Journal article
Biblical Performance Criticism: The Almost, But not Quite, Transubstantiation of Performance Studies into Religious Studies
Liminalities, Vol.13(3), pp.1-23
01/01/2017
Abstract
Because of the stripping of identifiable personal artefacts, customers are indeed coming into contact with anonymous bodies, but it is important to note that anonymous is not synonymous with unattached for Delany and the unknown author of In Gay Steam.The sentiment about getting lost and following the path as articulated by Althaus-Reid and Ahmed, not knowing the destination, is echoed by Koch (2001) when he writes:[...]I propose a scriptural hermeneutic for gay men that moves 'from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves.'To restate Andre Lepecki, in Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement (2006), concerning the nature of dance studies and its possibility to move beyond abstract arrangement of bodies in space, wrote:[...]any dance that probes and complicates how it comes into presence, and where it establishes its ground of being, suggests for critical dance studies the need to establish a renewed dialogue with contemporary philosophy ... a philosophy that understands the body not as a self-contained and closed entity but as an open and dynamic system of exchange, constantly producing modes of subjection and control, as well as of resistance and becomings.The body is placed at the center of the investigation and through movement enacts or rejects socially constructed expectations, thus eliciting a politics of movement.[...]placing dance at the center of sexuality studies is imperative because how one moves and how one moves in relation to others constitutes a public enactment of sexuality and gender (Burt, 200; p. 213).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Biblical Performance Criticism: The Almost, But not Quite, Transubstantiation of Performance Studies into Religious Studies
- Creators
- Christopher-Rasheem McMillan
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Liminalities, Vol.13(3), pp.1-23
- Publisher
- Liminalities
- eISSN
- 1557-2935
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Dance; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984272137702771
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