TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Alexandra Joan
TI  - The Routledge dance studies reader
SN  - 041516446X (hbk)
U1  - 792.801 20
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge, 
KW  - Dance
KW  - Modern dance
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Bibliography 294-304; 1. General Introduction; Alexandra Carter --; PART I Making dance; Introduction; Alexandra Carter --; 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. 'No' to spectacle .....; Yvonne Rainer --; 5. Pina Bausch: dance and emancipation; Norbert Servos --; 6. Imaginary homelands: creating a new dance language; Shobana Jeyasingh --; PART II Performing dance; Introduction; Alexandra Carter --; 7. Dancers talking about performance; Barbara Newman --; 8. I am a dancer; Martha Graham --; 9. A dancing consciousness; Rebecca Hilton with Bryan Smith --; 10. Spacemaking: experiences of a vital body; Susan Kozel --; PART III Reviewing dance; Introduction; Alexandra Carter --; 11. Bridging the critical distance; Marcia B. Siegel --; 12. Between description and deconstruction; Roger Copeland --; 13. Oh, The Pineapple Rag!; Arlene Croce --; 14. Spring: Ashton's Symphonic Variations in America; Alastair Macaulay --; PART IV Studying dance: conceptual concerns; Introduction; Alexandra Carter --; 15. What is art?; Betty Redfern --; 16. A venerable glance: seeing dance through phenomenology; Sondra Fraleigh --; 17. Dance history source material; June Layson --; 18. Embodying differences: issues in dance and cultural studies; Jane C. Desmond --; 19. An introduction to dance analysis; Janet Adshead --; 20. Dance, gender and culture; Ted Polhemus --; 21 Choreographing history; Susan Leigh Foster --; PART V Locating dance in history and society; Introduction; Alexandra Carter --; 22. Myths of origin; Andrée Grau--; 23. In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period; Deborah Jowitt --; 24. Diaghilev's cultivated audience; Lynn Garafola --; 25. Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances; Elizabeth Dempster --; 26. 'Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life': meaning and style in African American vernacular dance; Jacqui Malone --; PART VI Analysing dance; Introduction; Alexandra Carter --; 27. Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered; Stephanie Jordan and Helen Thomas --; 28. Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity; Ramsay Burt --; 29. Dances of death: Germany before Hitler; Susan Manning --; 30. Mark Morris: the body and what it means; Loan Acoocella --; 31. Dance and music video: some preliminary observations; Theresa Buckland --; 32. Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953); Richard Dyer and John Mueller
N2  - "Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--Page 4 of cover
ER  -