Moving history / dancing cultures : a dance history reader /

Moving history / dancing cultures : a dance history reader / edited by Ann Dils & Ann Cooper Albright. - xviii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

First Steps: Moving into the Study of Dance History / Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices. -- The Pleasures of Studying Dance History / Beyond Description: Writing beneath the Surface / Imagining Dance / Searching for Nijinsky's Sacre / Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance / An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance / The Trouble with the Male Dancer ... / Strategic Abilities: Negotiating the Disabled Body in Dance / Dancing in the Field: Notes from Memory / World Dance Traditions. -- Looking at World Dance / Trance and Ecstatic Dance / Bharatha Natyam - What Are You? / Medicine of the Brave: A Look at the Changing Role of Dance in Native Culture from the Buffalo Days to the Modern Powwow / The Belly Dance: Ancient Ritual to Cabaret Performance / Changing Images and Shifting Identities: Female Performers in Egypt / Commonalties in African Dance: An Aesthetic Foundation / Invention and Reinvention in the Traditional Arts / Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions / Epitome of Korean Folk Dance / The Many Faces of Korean Dance / Writing Dancing / Beyond La Danse Noble: Conventions in Choreography and Dance Performance at the Time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie / The Travesty Dancer in Nineteenth-Century Ballet / Interrupted Continuities: Modern Dance in Germany / America Dancing. -- Historical Moments: Rethinking the Past / The Irresistible Other: Hopi Ritual Drama and Euro-American Audiences / Juba and American Minstrelsy / Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 / Two-Stepping to Glory: Social Dance and the Rhetoric of Social Mobility / The Natural Body / Form as the Image of Human Perfectibility and Natural Order / The Harsh and Splendid Heroines of Martha Graham / The Dance Is a Weapon / In His Image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein / Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance / Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance / Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater / Chance Heroes / Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts. -- Moving Contexts / Butoh: "Twenty Years Ago we Were Crazy, Dirty, and Mad" / Dancing on the Endangered List: Aesthetics and Politics of Indigenous Dance in the Philippines / Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification / Ananya and Chandralekha - A Response to "Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification" / Looking at Movement as Culture: Contact Improvisation to Disco / 10,000 Jams Later: Contact Improvisation in Canada 1974-95 / Improvisation Is a Word for Something That Can't Keep a Name / Simply(?) the Doing of It, Like Two Arms Going Round and Round / Embodying History: Epic Narrative and Cultural Identity in African American Dance / A Little Technology Is a Dangerous Thing / Technique/Technology/Technique / Absent/Presence / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright. -- Deborah Jowitt. -- Joan Acocella. -- Millicent Hodson. -- Deidre Sklar. -- Joann Kealiinohomoku. -- Ramsay Burt. -- Ann Cooper Albright. -- Sally Ann Ness -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright. -- Erika Bourgignon. -- Avanthi Meduri. -- Lisa Doolittle and Heather Elton. -- Shawna Helland. -- Karin van Nieuwkerk. -- Kariamu Welsh Asante. -- Z. S. Strother. -- Barbara Browning. -- Lee Kyong-hee. -- Judy Van Zile. -- Mark Franko. -- Catherine Turocy. -- Lynn Garafola. -- Susan Allene Manning and Melissa Benson -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright. -- Sharyn R. Udall. -- Marian Hannah Winter. -- Jane Desmond. -- Julie Malnig. -- Ann Daly. -- Deborah Jowitt. -- Marcia B. Siegel. -- Ellen Graff. -- Nancy Reynolds. -- Brenda Dixon Gottschild. -- Thomas DeFrantz. -- Sally Banes. -- Deborah Jowitt -- Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright. -- Bonnie Sue Stein. -- Kathleen Foreman. -- Ananya Chatterjea. -- Uttara Coorlawala. -- Cynthia Jean and Cohen Bull. -- Peter Ryan. -- Steve Paxton. -- Susan Leigh Foster. -- Ann Cooper Albright. -- Richard Povall. -- Lisa Marie Naugle. -- Ann Dils. Pt. I. Pt. II. Pt. III. Pt. IV.

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Dance--History

GV1601. / M86 2001

792.809

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