How are music/sound and dance/movement interwoven in artistic processes? What kinds of models can be identified when studying the relations between them, and which aesthetic intentions correspond to them? Based on these questions, this volume maps out a wide range of performances from different genres and styles, including those that transcend the stage. The aim is to discuss relationships between music, its physicality and moving bodies in artistic practice. In doing so, the volume responds to a theoretical challenge: to conceptualize music as an invisible but audible motion from the perspective of perception and on the basis of visible (physical or virtual) movements that can be staged, choreographed or improvised.
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Veröffentlichung: Frühling 2025
About the Editor
Stephanie Schroedter, music and dance scholar, is professor for Theories of Rhythmics/Music and Movement at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. After earning her doctorate at the Musicology Institute of the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (2001, supported by the FWF Vienna and awarded with the “Dance Science Prize North Rhine-Westphalia” 2001), she moves at the interface of music, dance and (music/dance oriented) theater/performance.
She has taught as research fellow, visiting and substitute professor for musicology, dance studies, as well as theater/performance and media studies at the Universities of Bayreuth, Bern, Berlin, and Heidelberg and worked in several research projects supported by the German Re-search Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). For her second monograph Paris qui danse. Movement and Sound Spaces in a Modern City she received the “venia legendi” (“venia docendi”) for Musicology and Dance Studies from the Freie Univer-sität Berlin (2015). Her last research project “Bodies and Sounds in Motion” (funded by the DFG) dealt with methods for analyzing the interweaving of music/sound and dance/movement in performances of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
