Action and Transnational Cinema [Book Review]
Review(s) of: Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema, Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu (EDS), Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005, ISBN 1932643192. Includes endnote.
What is the body’s capacity to communicate? How can spoken words be translated into choreography? McCormack offers a summary of the relationship between translation theory and choreographic practice. Focusing on how the term translation has been used in choreographic discourse, she explores how theories located in translation studies might be borrowed and re-appropriated in order to understand the relationship between movement and source text in verbatim dance-theatre. The chapter concludes with a case study of DV8 Physical Theatre’s verbatim dance-theatre performance work in order to ask if source text and choreographic translation can exist in a heteroglossic (Bakhtin 1981) relationship with each other on stage.