The Routledge dance studies reader / edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea.

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

"Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--Page 4 of cover.

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