| Description |
xix, 316 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--Page [i]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-304) and index. |
| Contents |
Choreographers : Dancing for de Valois and Ashton / Annabel Farjeon -- Torse : There are no fixed points in space / Merce Cunningham, Jacqueline Lesschaeve -- No to spectacle ... / Yvonne Rainer -- Pina Bausch : Dance and emancipation / Norbert Servos -- Imaginary homelands : Creating a new dance language / Shobana Jeyasingh -- Dancers talking about performance / Barbara Newman -- I am a dancer / Martha Graham -- A dancing consciousness Rebecca Hilton, Bryan Smith -- Spacemaking : Experiences of a virtual body / Susan Kozel -- Bridging the critical distance / Marcia B. Siegel -- Between description and deconstruction / Roger Copeland -- Oh, That Pineapple Rag! / Arlene Croce -- Spring : Ashtons Symphonic Variations in America / Alastair Macaulay -- What is art? / Betty Redfern -- A vulnerable glance : Seeing dance through phenomenology / Sondra Fraleigh -- Dance history source materials / June Layson -- Embodying difference : Issues in dance and cultural studies / Jane C. Desmond -- An introduction to dance analysis / Janet Adshead -- Dance, gender and culture / Ted Polhemus -- Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster -- Myths of origin / Andrée Grau -- In pursuit of the sylph : Ballet in the Romantic period / Deborah Jowitt -- Diaghilev's cultivated audience / Lynn Garafola -- Women writing the body : Let's watch a little how she dances / Elizabeth Dempster -- Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life : Meaning and style in African American vernacular dance / Jacqui Malone -- Dance and gender : Formalism and semiotics reconsidered / Stephanie Jordan, Helen Thomas -- Nijinsky : Modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity / Ramsey Burt -- Dances of death : Germany before Hitler / Susan Manning -- Mark Morris : The body and what it means / Joan Acocella -- Dance and music video : Some preliminary observations / Theresa Buckland -- Two analyses of Dancing in the Dark (The Band Wagon, 1953) / Richard Dyer, John Mueller. |
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Contains abridged writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s -- p.xi. |
| Subject |
Dance.
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Dance. |
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Modern dance.
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Modern dance. |
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Dance -- Philosophy.
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Dance -- Philosophy. |
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Dance -- Sociological aspects.
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Dance -- Sociological aspects. |
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Dans. |
| Added Author |
Carter, Alexandra.
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| ISBN |
041516446X (alkaline paper) |
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9780415164467 (alkaline paper) |
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0415164478 (alkaline paper) |
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9780415164474 (alkaline paper) |
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