Moving history / dancing cultures :
Moving history / dancing cultures : a dance history reader /
edited by Ann Dils & Ann Cooper Albright.
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2001.
- xviii, 492 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices : The pleasures of studying dance history / Beyond description: writing beneath the surface / Imagining dance / Searching for Narjinsky's Sacre / Five premises for a culturally sensitive approach to dance / An anthropoligist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / The trouble with the male dancer... / Strategic abilities: negotiating the disabled body in dance / Dancing in the field: notes from memory / PART II World Dance Traditions / Looking at world dance / Trance and ecstatic dance / Bharatha natyam-- what are you? / Medicine of the brave: a look at the changing role of dance in native culture from the buffalo days to the modern powwow / The belly dance : ancient ritual to cabaret performance / Changing images and shifting identities: female performers in Egypt / Commonalities in African dance: an aesthetic foundation / Invention and reinvention in the traditional arts / Headspin: Capoeira's ironic inversions / Epitome of Korean folk dance / The many faces of Korean dance / Writing dancing / Beyond la danse noble: conventions in choreography and dance performance at the time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie / The travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet / Interrupted continuities: modern dance in Germany / PART III America Dancing Historical moments: rethinking the past / The irresistible other: Hopi ritual drama and Euro-American audiences / Juba and American minstrelsy / Dancing out the difference: cultural imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 / Two-stepping to glory : social dance and the rhetoric of social mobility / The natural body / Form as the image of human perfectibility and natural order / The harsh and splendid heroines of Martha Graham / The dance is a weapon / In his image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein / Stripping the emperor: the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Simmering passivity: the black male body in concert dance / Choreographic methods of the Judson dance theater / Chance heroes / PART IV Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts : Moving contexts / Butoh: "twenty years ago we were crazy, dirty, and mad" / Dancing on the endangered list: aesthetics and politics of indigenous dance in the Philippines / Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification / Ananya and Chandralekha - a response to "Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification" / Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco / 10,000 jams later: contact improvisation in Canada 1974-95 / Improvisation is a word for something that can't keep a name / Simply(?) the doing of it, like two arms going round and round / Embodying history: epic narrative and cultural identity in African American dance / A little technology is a dangerous thing / Technique/technology/technique / Absent/presence / Ann Dils. Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Deborah Jowitt -- Joan Acocella -- Millicent Hodson -- Deidre Sklar -- Joann Kealiinohomokuu -- Ramsay Burt -- Ann Cooper Albright -- Sally Ann Ness -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Erika Bourginon -- Avanthi Meduri -- Lisa Doolittle and Heather Elton -- Shawna Helland -- Karin van Kieuwkerk -- Kariamu Welsh Asante -- Z. S. Strother -- Barbara Browning -- Lee Kyong-hee -- Judy Van Zile -- Mark Franko -- Catherine Turocy -- Lynn Garafola -- Susan Allene Manning and Melissa Benson -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Sharyn R. Udall -- Marian Hannah Winter -- Jane Desmond -- Julie Malnig -- Ann Daly -- Deborah Jowitt -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Ellen Graff -- Nancy Reynolds -- Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Thomas DeFrantz -- Sally Banes -- Deborah Jowitt -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Bonnie Sue Stein -- Kathleen Foreman -- Ananya Chatterjea -- Uttara Coorlawala -- Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull -- Peter Ryan -- Steve Paxton -- Susan Leigh Foster -- Ann Cooper Albright -- Richard Povall -- Lisa Marie Naugle -- Ann Dils.
"This collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion."--cover.
0819564125 (alk. paper) 0819564133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001023549
Dance--History.
GV1601 / .M86 2001
792.809 / DIL
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices : The pleasures of studying dance history / Beyond description: writing beneath the surface / Imagining dance / Searching for Narjinsky's Sacre / Five premises for a culturally sensitive approach to dance / An anthropoligist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / The trouble with the male dancer... / Strategic abilities: negotiating the disabled body in dance / Dancing in the field: notes from memory / PART II World Dance Traditions / Looking at world dance / Trance and ecstatic dance / Bharatha natyam-- what are you? / Medicine of the brave: a look at the changing role of dance in native culture from the buffalo days to the modern powwow / The belly dance : ancient ritual to cabaret performance / Changing images and shifting identities: female performers in Egypt / Commonalities in African dance: an aesthetic foundation / Invention and reinvention in the traditional arts / Headspin: Capoeira's ironic inversions / Epitome of Korean folk dance / The many faces of Korean dance / Writing dancing / Beyond la danse noble: conventions in choreography and dance performance at the time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie / The travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet / Interrupted continuities: modern dance in Germany / PART III America Dancing Historical moments: rethinking the past / The irresistible other: Hopi ritual drama and Euro-American audiences / Juba and American minstrelsy / Dancing out the difference: cultural imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 / Two-stepping to glory : social dance and the rhetoric of social mobility / The natural body / Form as the image of human perfectibility and natural order / The harsh and splendid heroines of Martha Graham / The dance is a weapon / In his image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein / Stripping the emperor: the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Simmering passivity: the black male body in concert dance / Choreographic methods of the Judson dance theater / Chance heroes / PART IV Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts : Moving contexts / Butoh: "twenty years ago we were crazy, dirty, and mad" / Dancing on the endangered list: aesthetics and politics of indigenous dance in the Philippines / Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification / Ananya and Chandralekha - a response to "Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification" / Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco / 10,000 jams later: contact improvisation in Canada 1974-95 / Improvisation is a word for something that can't keep a name / Simply(?) the doing of it, like two arms going round and round / Embodying history: epic narrative and cultural identity in African American dance / A little technology is a dangerous thing / Technique/technology/technique / Absent/presence / Ann Dils. Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Deborah Jowitt -- Joan Acocella -- Millicent Hodson -- Deidre Sklar -- Joann Kealiinohomokuu -- Ramsay Burt -- Ann Cooper Albright -- Sally Ann Ness -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Erika Bourginon -- Avanthi Meduri -- Lisa Doolittle and Heather Elton -- Shawna Helland -- Karin van Kieuwkerk -- Kariamu Welsh Asante -- Z. S. Strother -- Barbara Browning -- Lee Kyong-hee -- Judy Van Zile -- Mark Franko -- Catherine Turocy -- Lynn Garafola -- Susan Allene Manning and Melissa Benson -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Sharyn R. Udall -- Marian Hannah Winter -- Jane Desmond -- Julie Malnig -- Ann Daly -- Deborah Jowitt -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Ellen Graff -- Nancy Reynolds -- Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Thomas DeFrantz -- Sally Banes -- Deborah Jowitt -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Bonnie Sue Stein -- Kathleen Foreman -- Ananya Chatterjea -- Uttara Coorlawala -- Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull -- Peter Ryan -- Steve Paxton -- Susan Leigh Foster -- Ann Cooper Albright -- Richard Povall -- Lisa Marie Naugle -- Ann Dils.
"This collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion."--cover.
0819564125 (alk. paper) 0819564133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001023549
Dance--History.
GV1601 / .M86 2001
792.809 / DIL