Walking on Walls: Shifting Perspectives in a Post-Modern World

Philip Szporer

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Abstract

In ‘Walking on Walls,’ Philip Szporer brings dance and pilgrimage into fascinating relationship. He resituates American choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown’s radical approach to the human body in terms of core concepts that have shaped pilgrimage theory. Szporer proposes that pilgrimage, place, and mobility theories provide useful lenses for an innovative re-examination of Brown’s pioneering dance pieces. Like pilgrimage, her ideas and contributions were enacted outside - and often in contradistinction to - the control of institutional authority.
Original languageEnglish
Article number11
Pages (from-to)109-116
Number of pages8
JournalInternational Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Communitas
  • Dance
  • Dance as pilgrimage
  • Experimental dance
  • Man Walking Down the Side of a Building
  • Mind-Body
  • Pilgrimage
  • Trisha Brown

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