Of the presence of the body :

Of the presence of the body : essays on dance and performance theory / Essays on dance and performance theory edited by André Lepecki. - Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2004. - 184 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-175) and index.

Introduction: Presence and Body in Dance and Performance Theory / I. GENEALOGIES OF PRESCENCE : 1. Trisha Brown's Orfeo: Two Takes on Double Endings / 2. Genealogy and Dance History: Foucault, Rainer, Bausch, and de Keersmaeker / II. DANCING OTHERING : 3. Dance and Its Others: Theory, State, Nation, and Socialism / 4. The Black Beat Made Visible: Hip Hop Dance and Body Power / 5. Danced Spirituals / 6. Breast Milk Is Sweet and Salty (A Choreography of Healing) / III. ONTOLOGY'S EVENTS : 7. Given Movement: Dance and the Event / 8. Inscribing Dance / 9. Embodying Transgression / André Lepecki -- Peggy Phelan -- Ramsay Burt -- Randy Martin -- Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Susan Manning -- Barbara Browning -- Mark Franko -- André Lepecki -- Karmen MacKendrick.

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Dance--Sociological aspects.
Human body--Symbolic aspects.
Movement, Aesthetics of.
Human locomotion.

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