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Homemade Academic Circus Idiosyncratically Embodied Explorations into Artistic Research and Circus Performance Camilla Damkjaer This book takes its starting point in a rare experiment, that of an academic researcher attempting to learn to do circus. What happens to the knowledge of the performance theoretician when physically engaging with the circus arts? One of the (im)material outcomes of this experiment is what the author calls "homemade academic circus” - a series of lecture-performances on performance-related academic questions, presented and discussed through circus disciplines. The interest of homemade academic circus, and the analysis of it presented in this book, lies not only in the fact that it is a form of curiosity within academic research. It is also worth noting that the main character in this experiment (sometimes known as the “professional amateur” or the “academic freak”, the alter egos of the researcher) goes through the opposite process of what many artists within artistic and practice-based research experience today. What happens if, rather than going from art to academia, one would go from academia to art? Which cultural and paradigmatic shocks would that produce, and how would that influence the researcher’s understanding of knowledge and thinking? Author Bio Camilla Damkjaer is a senior lecturer in dance theory and Head of Research Education at Stockholm University of the Arts. Her research concerns the methodologies of artistic research, the articulation of embodied knowledge within the arts, and the modes of consciousness in circus and dance practices. Online: Author Website Previous Titles The Aesthetics of Movement - Variations on Gilles Deleuze and Merce Cunningham (9783838316536), LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010. Promotional Plans Author website, social media. Talks and conferences. USP Adventures of an academic researcher transforming into a circus artist and questioning the politics of knowledge on her way. Competing Books Circus Bodies - Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance (0415329388), by Peta Tait Routledge , 2005 Categories PERFORMING ARTS(PER002000) -> Circus(PER002000) ART(ART060000) -> Performance(ART060000) PERFORMING ARTS(PER000000) -> General(PER000000)	Publication Date June 2016 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-78279-903-0 $22.95  |  £12.99 8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm 224PP e-book ISBN: 978-1-78279-902-3 $9.99  |  £6.99 Library of Congress 2014958361
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