Choreographing Empathy

Choreographing Empathy challenges the idea of a direct connection between the body of a dancer and that of their observer, arguing that the connection is in fact influenced by ever-changing sociocultural mores. This is a reconception with ramifications for performance studies as a whole.

Susan Foster

Acknowledgements Introducing Choreographing Empathy Chapter 1 - Choreography Inventories and Taxonomies Traveling and Disseminating Authorship, Narrative, and Technique Revealing and Testifying Making and Collaborating Chapter 2 - Kinesthesia Chorographies and Anatomies Trembling and Orienting Hardening and Picturing Encompassing and Expressing Synthesizing and Simulating Chapter 3 - Empathy Taken Unawares by Surprising Magnetisms Surveying the Scene, Nervously Domesticating and Othering Identifying and Emoting Resonating and Predicting Chapter 4 - Choreographing Empathy Grounding and Remembering Locating and Surveilling Engendering and Evaluating Downloading and Accessorizing Choreographing Empathy