TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dils,Ann
AU  - Albright,Ann Cooper
TI  - Moving history / dancing cultures: a dance history reader 
SN  - 0819564125 (alk. paper)
AV  - GV1601 .M86 2001
U1  - 792.809 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Middletown, Conn.
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
KW  - Dance
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART I  Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices; The pleasures of studying dance history; Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright --; Beyond description: writing beneath the surface; Deborah Jowitt --; Imagining dance; Joan Acocella --; Searching for Narjinsky's Sacre; Millicent Hodson --; Five premises for a culturally sensitive approach to dance; Deidre Sklar --; An anthropoligist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance; Joann Kealiinohomokuu --; The trouble with the male dancer... /; Ramsay Burt --; Strategic abilities: negotiating the disabled body in dance /; Ann Cooper Albright --; Dancing in the field: notes from memory; Sally Ann Ness --; PART II World Dance Traditions; Looking at world dance; Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright --; Trance and ecstatic dance; Erika Bourginon --; Bharatha natyam-- what are you?; Avanthi Meduri --; Medicine of the brave: a look at the changing role of dance in native culture from the buffalo days to the modern powwow; Lisa Doolittle and Heather Elton --; The belly dance : ancient ritual to cabaret performance; Shawna Helland --; Changing images and shifting identities: female performers in Egypt; Karin van Kieuwkerk --; Commonalities in African dance: an aesthetic foundation; Kariamu Welsh Asante --; Invention and reinvention in the traditional arts; Z. S. Strother --; Headspin: Capoeira's ironic inversions; Barbara Browning --; Epitome of Korean folk dance; Lee Kyong-hee --; The many faces of Korean dance; Judy Van Zile --; Writing dancing; Mark Franko --; Beyond la danse noble: conventions in choreography and dance performance at the time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie; Catherine Turocy --; The travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet; Lynn Garafola --; Interrupted continuities: modern dance in Germany; Susan Allene Manning and Melissa Benson --; PART III America Dancing; Historical moments: rethinking the past; Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright --; The irresistible other: Hopi ritual drama and Euro-American audiences; Sharyn R. Udall --; Juba and American minstrelsy; Marian Hannah Winter --; Dancing out the difference: cultural imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906; Jane Desmond --; Two-stepping to glory : social dance and the rhetoric of social mobility; Julie Malnig --; The natural body; Ann Daly --; Form as the image of human perfectibility and natural order; Deborah Jowitt --; The harsh and splendid heroines of Martha Graham; Marcia B. Siegel --; The dance is a weapon; Ellen Graff --; In his image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein; Nancy Reynolds --; Stripping the emperor: the Africanist presence in American concert dance; Brenda Dixon Gottschild --; Simmering passivity:  the black male body in concert dance; Thomas DeFrantz --; Choreographic methods of the Judson dance theater; Sally Banes --; Chance heroes; Deborah Jowitt --; PART IV Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts; Moving contexts; Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright --; Butoh: "twenty years ago we were crazy, dirty, and mad"; Bonnie Sue Stein --; Dancing on the endangered list: aesthetics and politics of indigenous dance in the Philippines; Kathleen Foreman --; Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification; Ananya Chatterjea --; Ananya and Chandralekha - a response to "Chandralekha: negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification"; Uttara Coorlawala --; Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco; Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull --; 10,000 jams later: contact improvisation in Canada 1974-95; Peter Ryan --; Improvisation is a word for something that can't keep a name; Steve Paxton --; Simply(?) the doing of it, like two arms going round and round; Susan Leigh Foster --; Embodying history: epic narrative and cultural identity in African American dance; Ann Cooper Albright --; A little technology is a dangerous thing /; Richard Povall --; Technique/technology/technique; Lisa Marie Naugle --; Absent/presence / Ann Dils.; Ann Dils.
N2  - "This collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion."--cover.
ER  -