Bodily Dressage: Cruel and Optimistic Pleasures of the Speaking and Moving Body
Researcher and critic Lisa Moravec explores how two performances of this year's ImPulsTanz, Vienna's International Dance Festival, challenge our understanding of a mechanized body-based politics of dressage. Peter Stamer's and Frank Willens's In the Penal Colony and Willens's group dance Radiant Optimism animate sensuous bodily feelings of dressaged animality"that are immanent in a collectively performed ethics…