Rethinking dance history : a reader / edited by Alexandra Carter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.Description: x, 196 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415287464 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780415287463 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415287472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780415287470 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 792.809 CAR
LOC classification:
  • GV1781 .R48 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Making history: a general introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 2. Destabilising the discipline: critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance / Alexandra Carter -- 3. Many sources, many voices / Lena Hammergren -- 4. Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice / Helen Thomas -- 5. "Queering" the king: a remedial approach to reading masculinity in dance / Chris Roebuck -- 6. A longing for perfection: neoclassic fashion and ballet / Judith Chazin-Bennahum -- 7. Cara Tranders' reveries: the autobiography of Cara Travers, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99 / Cara Tranders -- 8. Considering causation and conditions of possibility: practitioners and patrons of new dance in Progressive-era America / Linda Tomko -- 9. Katherine Dunham's floating island of negritude: the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in London and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s / Ramsay Burt -- 10. German dance & modernity: don't mention the Nazis / Marion Kant -- 11. Dancing in the margins?: British modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s / Larraine Nicholas -- 12. "Dancin' in the street": street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson / Beth Genn -- 13. Contestations: constructing a historical narrative for Odissi / Ananya Chatterjee -- 14. Matthew Bourne, dance history and Swan Lake / Alastair Macaulay -- 15. Concept and presence : the contemporary European dance scene / André Lepecki.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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