Rethinking dance history : a reader /
Rethinking dance history : a reader /
[edited by] Alexandra Carter.
- x, 196 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making history : a general introduction / Destabilising the discipline : critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance / Many sources, many voices / Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice / 'Queering' the king : a remedial approach to reading masculinity in dance / A longing for perfection : neoclassic fashion and ballet / Cara Tranders's reveries : the autobiography of Cara Tranders, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99 / Considering causation and conditions of possibility : practitioners and patrons of new dance in progressive-era America / Katherine Dunham's floating island of negritude : the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in London and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s / German dance and modernity : don't mention the Nazis / Dancing in the margins? British modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s / "Dancin' in the street" : street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson / Contestations : constructing a historical narrative for Odissi / Matthew Bourne, dance history and Swan Lake / Concept and presence : the contemporary European dance scene / Alexandra Carter -- Alexandra Carter -- Lena Hammergren -- Helen Thomas -- Chris Roebuck -- Judith Chazin-Bennahum -- Cara Tranders -- Linda J. Tomko -- Ramsay Burt -- Marion Kant -- Larraine Nicholas -- Beth Genne -- Ananya Chatterjee -- Alastair Macaulay -- Andre Lepecki. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
0415287464(hardback : alk. paper) 0415287472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003013057
Dance--History
GV1781 / .R48 2004
792.809
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making history : a general introduction / Destabilising the discipline : critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance / Many sources, many voices / Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice / 'Queering' the king : a remedial approach to reading masculinity in dance / A longing for perfection : neoclassic fashion and ballet / Cara Tranders's reveries : the autobiography of Cara Tranders, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99 / Considering causation and conditions of possibility : practitioners and patrons of new dance in progressive-era America / Katherine Dunham's floating island of negritude : the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in London and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s / German dance and modernity : don't mention the Nazis / Dancing in the margins? British modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s / "Dancin' in the street" : street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson / Contestations : constructing a historical narrative for Odissi / Matthew Bourne, dance history and Swan Lake / Concept and presence : the contemporary European dance scene / Alexandra Carter -- Alexandra Carter -- Lena Hammergren -- Helen Thomas -- Chris Roebuck -- Judith Chazin-Bennahum -- Cara Tranders -- Linda J. Tomko -- Ramsay Burt -- Marion Kant -- Larraine Nicholas -- Beth Genne -- Ananya Chatterjee -- Alastair Macaulay -- Andre Lepecki. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
0415287464(hardback : alk. paper) 0415287472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003013057
Dance--History
GV1781 / .R48 2004
792.809