{"title":"Dressage Performances as Infrastructural Critique: Mike Kelley and Yvonne Rainer’s Dancing Horses","authors":"Lisa Moravec","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2022.2027182","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Incorporating both animal studies and Marxist analysis, this article examines artistic works by Yvonne Rainer and Mike Kelley (in collaboration with choreographer Kate Foley) that stage humans performing as horses. Building on the rich history of how the Marxist tradition has characterized dressage, I trace the relationships between social conditioning, artistic training, and performance. While moving within what I call the dressage mechanisms of the contemporary art world, I read Rainer and Kelley’s performances as critiques of societal dressage, a process that capitalism subjects human and animal actors to, albeit to different degrees.","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"45 1","pages":"57 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"DANCE CHRONICLE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2022.2027182","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"DANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Incorporating both animal studies and Marxist analysis, this article examines artistic works by Yvonne Rainer and Mike Kelley (in collaboration with choreographer Kate Foley) that stage humans performing as horses. Building on the rich history of how the Marxist tradition has characterized dressage, I trace the relationships between social conditioning, artistic training, and performance. While moving within what I call the dressage mechanisms of the contemporary art world, I read Rainer and Kelley’s performances as critiques of societal dressage, a process that capitalism subjects human and animal actors to, albeit to different degrees.
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For dance scholars, professors, practitioners, and aficionados, Dance Chronicle is indispensable for keeping up with the rapidly changing field of dance studies. Dance Chronicle publishes research on a wide variety of Western and non-Western forms, including classical, avant-garde, and popular genres, often in connection with the related arts: music, literature, visual arts, theatre, and film. Our purview encompasses research rooted in humanities-based paradigms: historical, theoretical, aesthetic, ethnographic, and multi-modal inquiries into dance as art and/or cultural practice. Offering the best from both established and emerging dance scholars, Dance Chronicle is an ideal resource for those who love dance, past and present. Recently, Dance Chronicle has featured special issues on visual arts and dance, literature and dance, music and dance, dance criticism, preserving dance as a living legacy, dancing identity in diaspora, choreographers at the cutting edge, Martha Graham, women choreographers in ballet, and ballet in a global world.
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