CULS20015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Affect Theory, Polyrhythm

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15 Jun 2018

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Lecture 9: dance, the body and culture

The Dancefloor

• Any floor that dance happens on

• Most public space for music as sexual expression

• NOT NEUTRAL SPACES

dance

• Dance physical component of music

• Physical representation of music

• An expression of gender - hip hop as masculine, contemporary as feminine etc

Organic locale

• Social spaces in which dancing bodies come together to move to music

Phenomenal encountering

• A felt experience of the music through the body

• How dancers experience and visualise the rhythmic and melodic structures of the music

Affect theory

• Everything that is perceived through the senses = stimulation

• Affect is accumulation of intensities

• A collective, social and relational force that passes betw bodies

• Corporeal phenomenon, manifests as biochemical and neurological transformations

• Affect is transmitted a rhythmic patterns of frequencies

What dance does

• Makes sound/music visible

• Make visible how individuals feel sounds /music

• Music certainty contagious, in the sense of the way it circulates, as a form of collective sensation

5 principles of africanist aesthetics in american dance

• Embracing the conflict

• Polycentrism / polyrhythm

• High-affect juxtaposition

• Ephebism

• The aesthetic of the cool

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