Perpetual Motion

Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common

Harmony Bench

Perpetual Motion argues that dance is a vital part of civil society and a means for building participation, looking at how, after 9/11, it became a crucial way of recuperating the common character of public spaces. It asks how dance brings people together in digital spaces and what dance’s digital travels might mean for how we experience and express community.

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In Perpetual Motion, Harmony Bench achieves a stunning tour de force rendering of dance created for internet distribution. Reading the digitized bodies-in-motion as the basis for a twenty-first century common, she constructs essential theoretical models for considering asymmetrical access to dance, travel, the technologies of digital production, and modes of global distribution. A crucial offering for dance studies.

— Thomas F. DeFrantz, former president, Society of Dance History Scholars

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

Copyright 2020 by Harmony Bench

Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

edition
1
isbn
978-1-4529-6262-7
publisher
University of Minnesota Press
publisher place
Minneapolis, MN
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Please see the Creative Commons website for details about the restrictions associated with the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
rights holder
Harmony Bench
rights territory
World
series number
59
series title
Electronic Mediations
version
1.0
doi
https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452962627

Perpetual Motion

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