The Routledge dance studies reader /
The Routledge dance studies reader /
[edited by] Alexandra Carter.
- xix, 316 pages ; 24 cm
"Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--P. [i].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-304) and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- General introduction -- Making dance -- Introduction -- Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton -- Torse: there are no fixed points in space -- 'No' to spectacle... -- Pina Bausch: dance and emancipation -- Imaginary homelands: creating a new dance language -- Performing dance -- Introduction -- Dancers talking about performance -- I am a dancer -- A dancing consciousness -- Spacemaking: experiences of a virtual body -- Reviewing dance -- Introduction -- Bridging the critical distance -- Between description and deconstruction -- Oh, That Pineapple Rag! -- Spring: Ashton's Symphonic Variations in America -- Studying dance: conceptual concerns -- Introduction -- What is art? -- A vulnerable glance: seeing dance through phenomenology -- Dance history source materials -- Embodying difference: issues in dance and cultural studies -- An introduction to dance analysis -- Dance, gender and culture -- Choreographing history -- Locating dance in history and society -- Introduction -- Myths of origin -- In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period -- Diaghilev's cultivated audience -- Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances -- 'Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life': meaning and style in African American vernacular dance -- Analysing dance -- Introduction -- Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered -- Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity -- Dances of death: Germany before Hitler -- Mark Morris: the body and what it means -- Dance and music video: some preliminary observations -- Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953) -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. Pt. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. II. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. III. 11. 12. 13. 14. Pt. IV. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Pt. V. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Pt. VI. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.
"The Routledge Dance Studies Reader represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz, South Asian dance and Black dance. In an enlightening introduction, Alexandra Carter traces the development of dance studies internationally and surveys current debates about the methods and methodologies appropriate to the study of dance. Each section begins with an editorial preface, and features contributions by choreographers, performers, critics and scholars of dance and related disciplinary fields. The sections cover choreography, performance, writing criticism, the place of dance in history and society and analysis of specific dance works. An invaluable introduction to the key dance texts, The Routledge Dance Studies Reader is for anyone interested in enhancing their experience of dance."--Publisher description.
041516446X 9780415164467 0415164478 9780415164474
97046643
Dance
Modern dance.
Dance--Philosophy
Dance--Sociological aspects
GV1594 / .R68 1998
792.8
"Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s"--P. [i].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-304) and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- General introduction -- Making dance -- Introduction -- Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton -- Torse: there are no fixed points in space -- 'No' to spectacle... -- Pina Bausch: dance and emancipation -- Imaginary homelands: creating a new dance language -- Performing dance -- Introduction -- Dancers talking about performance -- I am a dancer -- A dancing consciousness -- Spacemaking: experiences of a virtual body -- Reviewing dance -- Introduction -- Bridging the critical distance -- Between description and deconstruction -- Oh, That Pineapple Rag! -- Spring: Ashton's Symphonic Variations in America -- Studying dance: conceptual concerns -- Introduction -- What is art? -- A vulnerable glance: seeing dance through phenomenology -- Dance history source materials -- Embodying difference: issues in dance and cultural studies -- An introduction to dance analysis -- Dance, gender and culture -- Choreographing history -- Locating dance in history and society -- Introduction -- Myths of origin -- In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period -- Diaghilev's cultivated audience -- Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances -- 'Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life': meaning and style in African American vernacular dance -- Analysing dance -- Introduction -- Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered -- Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity -- Dances of death: Germany before Hitler -- Mark Morris: the body and what it means -- Dance and music video: some preliminary observations -- Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953) -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. Pt. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. II. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. III. 11. 12. 13. 14. Pt. IV. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Pt. V. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Pt. VI. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.
"The Routledge Dance Studies Reader represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the 1980s and 1990s, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz, South Asian dance and Black dance. In an enlightening introduction, Alexandra Carter traces the development of dance studies internationally and surveys current debates about the methods and methodologies appropriate to the study of dance. Each section begins with an editorial preface, and features contributions by choreographers, performers, critics and scholars of dance and related disciplinary fields. The sections cover choreography, performance, writing criticism, the place of dance in history and society and analysis of specific dance works. An invaluable introduction to the key dance texts, The Routledge Dance Studies Reader is for anyone interested in enhancing their experience of dance."--Publisher description.
041516446X 9780415164467 0415164478 9780415164474
97046643
Dance
Modern dance.
Dance--Philosophy
Dance--Sociological aspects
GV1594 / .R68 1998
792.8