TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Alexandra Joan
AU  - O'Shea,Janet
TI  - The Routledge dance studies reader
SN  - 0415485983 (hbk)
U1  - 792.801 20
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge, 
KW  - Dance
KW  - Modern dance
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Bibliography 364-389; 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
N2  - "Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--Page 4 of cover
ER  -