The Routledge dance studies reader / edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea.

Other author Carter, Alexandra.
Other author O'Shea, Janet, 1968-
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Descriptionxvii, 405 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Dance.
Modern dance.
Dance--Philosophy.
Dance--Sociological aspects.

Cover title Dance studies reader
Contents 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?: adaptation and anachronism: Rennie Harris's Puremovement and Shakespeare / 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 / Deobrah 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 / Yatin 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. Differentiating phenomenology and dance / Philipa 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.
General noteCover title on cloth binding only.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references ([364]-389) and index.
Genre/formAufsatzsammlung.
LCCN 2009029912
ISBN9780415485999 (hardback)
ISBN0415485991 (hardback)
ISBN9780415485982 (hardback)
ISBN0415485983 (pbk.)

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