The Routledge dance studies reader / edited by Alexandra Carter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dance Studies/Performance StudiesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: xix, 316 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 041516446X (hbk)
  • 0415164478 (pbk)
  • 9780415164467 (hbk)
  • 9780415164474 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.801 CAR
Contents:
1. General Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- PART I Making dance : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 2. Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton / Annabel Farjeon -- 3. Torse: there are no fixed points in space / Merce Cunningham with Jacqueline Lesschaeve -- 4. 'No' to spectacle ..... / Yvonne Rainer -- 5. Pina Bausch: dance and emancipation / Norbert Servos -- 6. Imaginary homelands: creating a new dance language / Shobana Jeyasingh -- PART II Performing dance : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 7. Dancers talking about performance / Barbara Newman -- 8. I am a dancer / Martha Graham -- 9. A dancing consciousness / Rebecca Hilton with Bryan Smith -- 10. Spacemaking: experiences of a vital body / Susan Kozel -- PART III Reviewing dance : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 11. Bridging the critical distance / Marcia B. Siegel -- 12. Between description and deconstruction / Roger Copeland -- 13. Oh, The Pineapple Rag! / Arlene Croce -- 14. Spring: Ashton's Symphonic Variations in America / Alastair Macaulay -- PART IV Studying dance: conceptual concerns : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 15. What is art? / Betty Redfern -- 16. A venerable glance: seeing dance through phenomenology / Sondra Fraleigh -- 17. Dance history source material / June Layson -- 18. Embodying differences: issues in dance and cultural studies / Jane C. Desmond -- 19. An introduction to dance analysis / Janet Adshead -- 20. Dance, gender and culture / Ted Polhemus -- 21 Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster -- PART V Locating dance in history and society : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 22. Myths of origin / Andrée Grau-- 23. In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period / Deborah Jowitt -- 24. Diaghilev's cultivated audience / Lynn Garafola -- 25. Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances / Elizabeth Dempster -- 26. 'Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life': meaning and style in African American vernacular dance / Jacqui Malone -- PART VI Analysing dance : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 27. Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered / Stephanie Jordan and Helen Thomas -- 28. Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity / Ramsay Burt -- 29. Dances of death: Germany before Hitler / Susan Manning -- 30. Mark Morris: the body and what it means / Loan Acoocella -- 31. Dance and music video: some preliminary observations / Theresa Buckland -- 32. Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953) / Richard Dyer and John Mueller.
Summary: "Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--Page 4 of cover.
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Bibliography 294-304.

1. General Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- PART I Making dance : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 2. Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton / Annabel Farjeon -- 3. Torse: there are no fixed points in space / Merce Cunningham with Jacqueline Lesschaeve -- 4. 'No' to spectacle ..... / Yvonne Rainer -- 5. Pina Bausch: dance and emancipation / Norbert Servos -- 6. Imaginary homelands: creating a new dance language / Shobana Jeyasingh -- PART II Performing dance : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 7. Dancers talking about performance / Barbara Newman -- 8. I am a dancer / Martha Graham -- 9. A dancing consciousness / Rebecca Hilton with Bryan Smith -- 10. Spacemaking: experiences of a vital body / Susan Kozel -- PART III Reviewing dance : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 11. Bridging the critical distance / Marcia B. Siegel -- 12. Between description and deconstruction / Roger Copeland -- 13. Oh, The Pineapple Rag! / Arlene Croce -- 14. Spring: Ashton's Symphonic Variations in America / Alastair Macaulay -- PART IV Studying dance: conceptual concerns : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 15. What is art? / Betty Redfern -- 16. A venerable glance: seeing dance through phenomenology / Sondra Fraleigh -- 17. Dance history source material / June Layson -- 18. Embodying differences: issues in dance and cultural studies / Jane C. Desmond -- 19. An introduction to dance analysis / Janet Adshead -- 20. Dance, gender and culture / Ted Polhemus -- 21 Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster -- PART V Locating dance in history and society : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 22. Myths of origin / Andrée Grau-- 23. In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period / Deborah Jowitt -- 24. Diaghilev's cultivated audience / Lynn Garafola -- 25. Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances / Elizabeth Dempster -- 26. 'Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life': meaning and style in African American vernacular dance / Jacqui Malone -- PART VI Analysing dance : Introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 27. Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered / Stephanie Jordan and Helen Thomas -- 28. Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity / Ramsay Burt -- 29. Dances of death: Germany before Hitler / Susan Manning -- 30. Mark Morris: the body and what it means / Loan Acoocella -- 31. Dance and music video: some preliminary observations / Theresa Buckland -- 32. Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953) / Richard Dyer and John Mueller.

"Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--Page 4 of cover.

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