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, the contributors to this volume map 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, they respond to a theoretical challenge: to conceptualize music as an invisible but audible motion from the perspective of perception and on the basis of visible movements that can be staged, choreographed, or improvised.

Stephanie Schroedter, music and dance scholar, is a professor for Theories of Rhythmics/Music and Movement at mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. After earning her doctorate at the Musicology Institute of Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, she now works at the interface of music, dance, theater and performance. She has taught musicology, dance studies, theater/performance studies and media studies at the Universities of Bayreuth, Bern, Berlin, and Heidelberg and worked in several research projects supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).