Moving history / dancing cultures : a dance history reader / edited by Ann Dils & Ann Cooper Albright.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2001.Description: xviii, 492 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0819564125 (alk. paper)
  • 0819564133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 792.809 DIL
LOC classification:
  • GV1601 .M86 2001
Contents:
PART I Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices : The pleasures of studying dance history / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Beyond description: writing beneath the surface / Deborah Jowitt -- Imagining dance / Joan Acocella -- Searching for Narjinsky's Sacre / Millicent Hodson -- Five premises for a culturally sensitive approach to dance / Deidre Sklar -- An anthropoligist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomokuu -- The trouble with the male dancer... / Ramsay Burt -- Strategic abilities: negotiating the disabled body in dance / Ann Cooper Albright -- Dancing in the field: notes from memory / Sally Ann Ness -- PART II World Dance Traditions / Looking at world dance / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Trance and ecstatic dance / Erika Bourginon -- Bharatha natyam-- what are you? / Avanthi Meduri -- Medicine of the brave: a look at the changing role of dance in native culture from the buffalo days to the modern powwow / Lisa Doolittle and Heather Elton -- The belly dance : ancient ritual to cabaret performance / Shawna Helland -- Changing images and shifting identities: female performers in Egypt / Karin van Kieuwkerk -- Commonalities in African dance: an aesthetic foundation / Kariamu Welsh Asante -- Invention and reinvention in the traditional arts / Z. S. Strother -- Headspin: Capoeira's ironic inversions / Barbara Browning -- Epitome of Korean folk dance / Lee Kyong-hee -- The many faces of Korean dance / Judy Van Zile -- Writing dancing / Mark Franko -- Beyond la danse noble: conventions in choreography and dance performance at the time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie / Catherine Turocy -- The travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet / Lynn Garafola -- Interrupted continuities: modern dance in Germany / Susan Allene Manning and Melissa Benson -- PART III America Dancing Historical moments: rethinking the past / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- The irresistible other: Hopi ritual drama and Euro-American audiences / Sharyn R. Udall -- Juba and American minstrelsy / Marian Hannah Winter -- Dancing out the difference: cultural imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 / Jane Desmond -- Two-stepping to glory : social dance and the rhetoric of social mobility / Julie Malnig -- The natural body / Ann Daly -- Form as the image of human perfectibility and natural order / Deborah Jowitt -- The harsh and splendid heroines of Martha Graham / Marcia B. Siegel -- The dance is a weapon / Ellen Graff -- In his image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein / Nancy Reynolds -- Stripping the emperor: the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Simmering passivity: the black male body in concert dance / Thomas DeFrantz -- Choreographic methods of the Judson dance theater / Sally Banes -- Chance heroes / Deborah Jowitt -- PART IV Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts : Moving contexts / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Butoh: "twenty years ago we were crazy, dirty, and mad" / Bonnie Sue Stein -- Dancing on the endangered list: aesthetics and politics of indigenous dance in the Philippines / Kathleen Foreman -- Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification / Ananya Chatterjea -- Ananya and Chandralekha - a response to "Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification" / Uttara Coorlawala -- Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco / Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull -- 10,000 jams later: contact improvisation in Canada 1974-95 / Peter Ryan -- Improvisation is a word for something that can't keep a name / Steve Paxton -- Simply(?) the doing of it, like two arms going round and round / Susan Leigh Foster -- Embodying history: epic narrative and cultural identity in African American dance / Ann Cooper Albright -- A little technology is a dangerous thing / Richard Povall -- Technique/technology/technique / Lisa Marie Naugle -- Absent/presence / Ann Dils. Ann Dils.
Summary: "This collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion."--cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices : The pleasures of studying dance history / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Beyond description: writing beneath the surface / Deborah Jowitt -- Imagining dance / Joan Acocella -- Searching for Narjinsky's Sacre / Millicent Hodson -- Five premises for a culturally sensitive approach to dance / Deidre Sklar -- An anthropoligist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomokuu -- The trouble with the male dancer... / Ramsay Burt -- Strategic abilities: negotiating the disabled body in dance / Ann Cooper Albright -- Dancing in the field: notes from memory / Sally Ann Ness -- PART II World Dance Traditions / Looking at world dance / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Trance and ecstatic dance / Erika Bourginon -- Bharatha natyam-- what are you? / Avanthi Meduri -- Medicine of the brave: a look at the changing role of dance in native culture from the buffalo days to the modern powwow / Lisa Doolittle and Heather Elton -- The belly dance : ancient ritual to cabaret performance / Shawna Helland -- Changing images and shifting identities: female performers in Egypt / Karin van Kieuwkerk -- Commonalities in African dance: an aesthetic foundation / Kariamu Welsh Asante -- Invention and reinvention in the traditional arts / Z. S. Strother -- Headspin: Capoeira's ironic inversions / Barbara Browning -- Epitome of Korean folk dance / Lee Kyong-hee -- The many faces of Korean dance / Judy Van Zile -- Writing dancing / Mark Franko -- Beyond la danse noble: conventions in choreography and dance performance at the time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie / Catherine Turocy -- The travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet / Lynn Garafola -- Interrupted continuities: modern dance in Germany / Susan Allene Manning and Melissa Benson -- PART III America Dancing Historical moments: rethinking the past / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- The irresistible other: Hopi ritual drama and Euro-American audiences / Sharyn R. Udall -- Juba and American minstrelsy / Marian Hannah Winter -- Dancing out the difference: cultural imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 / Jane Desmond -- Two-stepping to glory : social dance and the rhetoric of social mobility / Julie Malnig -- The natural body / Ann Daly -- Form as the image of human perfectibility and natural order / Deborah Jowitt -- The harsh and splendid heroines of Martha Graham / Marcia B. Siegel -- The dance is a weapon / Ellen Graff -- In his image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein / Nancy Reynolds -- Stripping the emperor: the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Simmering passivity: the black male body in concert dance / Thomas DeFrantz -- Choreographic methods of the Judson dance theater / Sally Banes -- Chance heroes / Deborah Jowitt -- PART IV Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts : Moving contexts / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Butoh: "twenty years ago we were crazy, dirty, and mad" / Bonnie Sue Stein -- Dancing on the endangered list: aesthetics and politics of indigenous dance in the Philippines / Kathleen Foreman -- Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification / Ananya Chatterjea -- Ananya and Chandralekha - a response to "Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification" / Uttara Coorlawala -- Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco / Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull -- 10,000 jams later: contact improvisation in Canada 1974-95 / Peter Ryan -- Improvisation is a word for something that can't keep a name / Steve Paxton -- Simply(?) the doing of it, like two arms going round and round / Susan Leigh Foster -- Embodying history: epic narrative and cultural identity in African American dance / Ann Cooper Albright -- A little technology is a dangerous thing / Richard Povall -- Technique/technology/technique / Lisa Marie Naugle -- Absent/presence / Ann Dils. Ann Dils.

"This collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion."--cover.

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