Moving words : re-writing dance /
edited by Gay Morris.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
- xiv, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- PART I Strategies, Analytical and Interpretive : 2. Musical/choreographic discourse: method, music theory, and meaning / 3. Visible secrets: style analysis and dance literacy / 4. Five theses on Laughter after all / 5. Do you want to join the dance?: postmodernism/poststructuralism, the body, and dance / 6. Re/moving boundaries : from dance history to cultural studies / PART II The Body and Gender : 7. Simmering passivity: the black male body in concert dance / 8. Being danced again: Meredith Monk, reclaiming the girlchild / 9. "Styles of the flesh": gender in the dances of Mark Morris / 10. Uncanny women and anxious masters: reading Coppélia against Freud / PART III Histories Reconsidered : 11. American document and American minstrelsy / 12. The culture of nobility/the nobility of self-cultivation / 13. Jazz modernism / PART IV Cultural Crossings : 14. Observing the evidence fail: difference arising from objectification in cross-cultural studies of dance / 15. Cross-cultural differences in the interpretation of Merce Cunningham's choreography / 16. Dance discourses: rethinking the history of the "oriental dance" / 17. Balkan tradition, American alternative: dance, community, and the people of the pines / 18. High critics/low arts / Stephanie Jordan -- Marcia B. Siegel -- Mark Franko -- Helen Thomas -- Amy Koritz -- Thomas DeFrantz -- Leslie Satin -- Gay Morris -- Gwen Bergner and Nicole Plett -- Susan Manning -- Judy Burns -- Constance Valis Hill -- Sally Ann Ness -- Miwa Nagura -- Joan L. Erdman -- June Adler Vail -- Carol Martin.
"Dance scholarship is in the midst of explosive growth today, due in part to the current interest in the body, gender, and in performance studies in general, as well as to dancers and choreographers whose innovative work is reinvigorating the performance-going public's interest in dance. Now Moving Words offers students, scholars, and critics of dance and performance the latest word on the debates swirling within the world of dance.
Contributors confront basic questions of definition and interpretation within dance studies, while at the same time examing broader issues, such as the body, gender, class, race, nationalism, and cross-cultural exchange. Specific essays address such topics as the black male body in dance, gender and subversions in the dances of Mark Morris, race and nationalism in Martha Graham's American Document, and the history of Asian dance." -- Publisher description.