The Routledge dance studies reader /
The Routledge dance studies reader /
edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea.
- 2nd edition
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- xvii, 405 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography 364-389.
1. Roots/routes of dance studies / PART I Making dance : 2. Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton / 3. Torse: there are no fixed points in space / 4.Recovering Hurston, reconsidering the choreographer / 5. Reworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in Swan Lake, 4 Acts / 6. Making space, speaking spaces / 7. Reflections on new directions in Indian dance / 8. What's it worth to ya? Adaption and anachronism: Rennie Harris's PureMovement and Shakeapeare / PART II Performing dance : 9. I am a dancer / 10. Tracing the past: writing history through the body / 11. Cabbages and kings: disability, dance and some timely considerations / 12. Hips, hip-notism, hip(g)nosis: the mulata performances of Ninón Sevilla / 13. Still curious / PART III Ways of looking : 14. Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered / 15. A tapestry of intertexts: dance analysis for the twenty-first century / 16. Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco / 17. Getting off the Orient Express / 18. Bridging the critical distance / 19. Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953) / PART IV Locating dance in history and society : 20. In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period / 21. Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity / 22. Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances / 23. Gambling femininity: tango wallflowers and femmes fatales / 24. Choreographing a flexible Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Taiwan's changing identity / 25. Reality check: 'Dancing with the stars' and the American dream / 26. From interculturalism to historicism: reflections on classical Indian dance / PART V Debating the discipline : 27. Choreographing history / 28. Differentiatiin phenomenology and dance / 29. Dance studies in the international academy: genealogy of a disciplinary formation / 30. Shifting perspectives on dance ethnography / 31. Slamdancing with the boundaries of theory and practice: the legitimisation of popular dance / 32. What is art? / Janet O'Shea -- Annabel Farjeon -- Merce Cunningham with Jacqueline Lesschaeve -- Anthea Kraut -- Vida Midgelow -- Carol Brown -- Chandralekha -- Anna B. Scott -- Martha Graham -- Ann Cooper Albright -- Adam Benjamin -- Melissa Blanco Borelli -- Emilyn Claid -- Stephanie Jordan and Helen Thomas -- Janet Lansdale -- Cynthia J. Novack -- Shobana Jeyasingh -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Richard Dyer and John Mueller -- Deborah Jowitt -- Ramsay Burt -- Elizabeth Dempster -- Marta E. Savigliano -- Latin Lin -- Juliet McMains -- Pallabi Chakravorty -- Susan Leigh Foster -- Philipp Rothfield -- Jens Richard Giersdorf -- Theresa Jill Buckland -- Sherril Dodds -- Betty Redfern.
"Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--Page 4 of cover.
0415485983 (hbk) 0415485991 (pbk) 0203860985 (ebk) 9780415485982 (hbk) 9780415485999 (pbk) 9780203860984 (ebk)
Dance
Modern dance
Dance--Philosophy
792.801 / CAR
Bibliography 364-389.
1. Roots/routes of dance studies / PART I Making dance : 2. Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton / 3. Torse: there are no fixed points in space / 4.Recovering Hurston, reconsidering the choreographer / 5. Reworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in Swan Lake, 4 Acts / 6. Making space, speaking spaces / 7. Reflections on new directions in Indian dance / 8. What's it worth to ya? Adaption and anachronism: Rennie Harris's PureMovement and Shakeapeare / PART II Performing dance : 9. I am a dancer / 10. Tracing the past: writing history through the body / 11. Cabbages and kings: disability, dance and some timely considerations / 12. Hips, hip-notism, hip(g)nosis: the mulata performances of Ninón Sevilla / 13. Still curious / PART III Ways of looking : 14. Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered / 15. A tapestry of intertexts: dance analysis for the twenty-first century / 16. Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco / 17. Getting off the Orient Express / 18. Bridging the critical distance / 19. Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953) / PART IV Locating dance in history and society : 20. In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period / 21. Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity / 22. Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances / 23. Gambling femininity: tango wallflowers and femmes fatales / 24. Choreographing a flexible Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Taiwan's changing identity / 25. Reality check: 'Dancing with the stars' and the American dream / 26. From interculturalism to historicism: reflections on classical Indian dance / PART V Debating the discipline : 27. Choreographing history / 28. Differentiatiin phenomenology and dance / 29. Dance studies in the international academy: genealogy of a disciplinary formation / 30. Shifting perspectives on dance ethnography / 31. Slamdancing with the boundaries of theory and practice: the legitimisation of popular dance / 32. What is art? / Janet O'Shea -- Annabel Farjeon -- Merce Cunningham with Jacqueline Lesschaeve -- Anthea Kraut -- Vida Midgelow -- Carol Brown -- Chandralekha -- Anna B. Scott -- Martha Graham -- Ann Cooper Albright -- Adam Benjamin -- Melissa Blanco Borelli -- Emilyn Claid -- Stephanie Jordan and Helen Thomas -- Janet Lansdale -- Cynthia J. Novack -- Shobana Jeyasingh -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Richard Dyer and John Mueller -- Deborah Jowitt -- Ramsay Burt -- Elizabeth Dempster -- Marta E. Savigliano -- Latin Lin -- Juliet McMains -- Pallabi Chakravorty -- Susan Leigh Foster -- Philipp Rothfield -- Jens Richard Giersdorf -- Theresa Jill Buckland -- Sherril Dodds -- Betty Redfern.
"Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--Page 4 of cover.
0415485983 (hbk) 0415485991 (pbk) 0203860985 (ebk) 9780415485982 (hbk) 9780415485999 (pbk) 9780203860984 (ebk)
Dance
Modern dance
Dance--Philosophy
792.801 / CAR