The Routledge dance studies reader
2010
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Main title:
The Routledge dance studies reader / edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Imprint:
London, England : Routledge, 2010
Contents:
Roots/routes of dance studies / Janet O'SheaPart I. Making danceChoreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton / Annabel FarjeonTorse: there are no fixed points in space / Merce Cunningham with Jacqueline LesschaeveRecovering Hurston, reconsidering the choreographer / Anthea KrautReworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in 'Swan Lake, 4 acts' / Vida Midgelow - Making space, speaking spaces / Carol BrownReflections on new directions in Indian dance / ChandralekhaWhat's it worth to ya?: adaptation and anachronism: Rennie Harris's Puremovement and Shakespeare / Anna B. ScottPart II. Performing danceI am a dancer / Martha GrahamTracing the past: writing history through the body / Ann Cooper AlbrightCabbages and kings: disability, dance and some timely considerations / Adam BenjaminHips, hip-notism, hip(g)nosis: the mulata performances of NinoĢn Sevilla / Melissa Blanco BorelliStill curious / Emilyn ClaidPart III. Ways of lookingDance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered / Stephanie Jordan and Helen ThomasA tapestry of intertexts: dance analysis for the twenty-first century / Janet LansdaleLooking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco / Cynthia J. NovackGetting off the Orient Express / Shobana JeyasinghBridging the critical distance / Marcia B. SiegelTwo analyses of "Dancing in the dark" ('The band wagon, ' 1953) / Richard Dyer and John MuellerPart IV. Locating dance in history and societyIn pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period / Deobrah JowittNijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity / Ramsay BurtWomen writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances / Elizabeth DempsterGambling femininity: tango wallflowers and femmes fatales / Marta E. SaviglianoChoreographing a flexible Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Taiwan's changing identity / Yatin LinReality check: 'Dancing with the stars' and the American dream / Juliet McMainsFrom interculturalism to historicism: reflections on classical Indian dance / Pallabi Chakravorty.Part V. Debating the disciplineChoreographing history / Susan Leigh FosterDifferentiating phenomenology and dance / Philipa RothfieldDance studies in the international academy: genealogy of a disciplinary formation / Jens Richard GiersdorfShifting perspectives on dance ethnography / Theresa Jill BucklandSlamdancing with the boundaries of theory and practice: the legitimisation of popular dance / Sherril DoddsWhat is art? / Betty Redfern
ISBN:
9780415485999
Dewey class:
792.8
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
48321
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| McNally Campus | BA Dance RC | 792.8 ROU | Available |
| McNally Campus | Dip Dance RC | 792.8 ROU | Available |
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