Anyone encountering Paramana and Gonzalezs volume for the first time will be thrilled to find that finally here comes a book that addresses how our bodies claim back the world by rejecting abuse and commodified relations. * Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy *
[Performance, Dance and Political Economy] addresses how dance and movement provide a means for our bodies to claim back the world and reject the commodified relations of capitalism ... The collection successfully illuminates the role of dance in thinking about these political questions. * Dance Chronicle *
This book is a conversation. Not a record of finished discussions, it is a purposeful provocation toward the engagement of otherwise futures. Taking the form of call and response, sets of essays respond to each other and to art works, weaving an open invitation to concerted participation in collective efforts we must make toward change change in the global political economy and change in the genre of human delimited by the lifeways of colonial-capitalism. Powerful, insightful, and brave imaginings here welcome, through the prism of performance, the end of the world as we have known it. Importantly, the authors in this collection also get on with the business of choreographing elsewise. The call is to rearrange ourselves at the granular level of our bodies in space, our bodies in relation to each other and to the political economies that delimit us. We are asked to extend our limbs like our abilities to theorize, and insist upon our capacities to listen, learn, heal, breathe, bend, love, fly. Kudos to Anita Gonzalez and Katerina Paramana for a book that, with an inspiring Foreword by Tavia Nyongo and contributions by political and social theorists as well as by performance and dance studies scholars, makes so many contemporary ends into even more future beginnings. * Rebecca Schneider, Brown University, USA *
The book excellently captures dance as a semio-technological structure that discursively and corporeally targets the accelerated system of necrocapitalist economic restrictions, discrimination, and expropriation to incite a genealogy of historical and future transformations to literally dance against reinvigorated control and rapacious extractive violence. * Marina Grzinic, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria *
This new interdisciplinary dialogue opens up fresh perspectives that strike a good balance between theoretical perspectives and responses to these that are grounded in the experiences of artists and others in the field. Gonzalez and Paramana have assembled a team who have a wide range of knowledge and expertise, are all well established but progressive, and offer stimulating contributions. * Ramsay Burt, De Montfort University, UK *
