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