Rethinking dance history :
Rethinking dance history : a reader /
edited by Alexandra Carter.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- x, 196 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Making history: a general introduction / 2. Destabilising the discipline: critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance / 3. Many sources, many voices / 4. Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice / 5. "Queering" the king: a remedial approach to reading masculinity in dance / 6. A longing for perfection: neoclassic fashion and ballet / 7. Cara Tranders' reveries: the autobiography of Cara Travers, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99 / 8. Considering causation and conditions of possibility: practitioners and patrons of new dance in Progressive-era America / 9. Katherine Dunham's floating island of negritude: the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in London and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s / 10. German dance & modernity: don't mention the Nazis / 11. Dancing in the margins?: British modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s / 12. "Dancin' in the street": street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson / 13. Contestations: constructing a historical narrative for Odissi / 14. Matthew Bourne, dance history and Swan Lake / 15. Concept and presence : the contemporary European dance scene / Alexandra Carter -- Alexandra Carter -- Lena Hammergren -- Helen Thomas -- Chris Roebuck -- Judith Chazin-Bennahum -- Cara Tranders -- Linda Tomko -- Ramsay Burt -- Marion Kant -- Larraine Nicholas -- Beth Genn -- Ananya Chatterjee -- Alastair Macaulay -- André Lepecki.
0415287464 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415287463 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415287472 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780415287470 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003013057
Dance--History.
GV1781 / .R48 2004
792.809 / CAR
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Making history: a general introduction / 2. Destabilising the discipline: critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance / 3. Many sources, many voices / 4. Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice / 5. "Queering" the king: a remedial approach to reading masculinity in dance / 6. A longing for perfection: neoclassic fashion and ballet / 7. Cara Tranders' reveries: the autobiography of Cara Travers, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99 / 8. Considering causation and conditions of possibility: practitioners and patrons of new dance in Progressive-era America / 9. Katherine Dunham's floating island of negritude: the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in London and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s / 10. German dance & modernity: don't mention the Nazis / 11. Dancing in the margins?: British modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s / 12. "Dancin' in the street": street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson / 13. Contestations: constructing a historical narrative for Odissi / 14. Matthew Bourne, dance history and Swan Lake / 15. Concept and presence : the contemporary European dance scene / Alexandra Carter -- Alexandra Carter -- Lena Hammergren -- Helen Thomas -- Chris Roebuck -- Judith Chazin-Bennahum -- Cara Tranders -- Linda Tomko -- Ramsay Burt -- Marion Kant -- Larraine Nicholas -- Beth Genn -- Ananya Chatterjee -- Alastair Macaulay -- André Lepecki.
0415287464 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415287463 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415287472 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780415287470 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003013057
Dance--History.
GV1781 / .R48 2004
792.809 / CAR