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Moving history / dancing cultures : a dance history reader / edited by Ann Dils & Ann Cooper Albright.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyn University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xviii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0819564133
  • 9780819564139
  • 0819564125
  • 9780819564122
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.809
LOC classification:
  • GV1601. M86 2001
Contents:
First Steps: Moving into the Study of Dance History / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright -- Pt. I. Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices. -- The Pleasures of Studying Dance History / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright. -- Beyond Description: Writing beneath the Surface / Deborah Jowitt. -- Imagining Dance / Joan Acocella. -- Searching for Nijinsky's Sacre / Millicent Hodson. -- Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance / Deidre Sklar. -- An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance / Joann Kealiinohomoku. -- The Trouble with the Male Dancer ... / Ramsay Burt. -- Strategic Abilities: Negotiating the Disabled Body in Dance / Ann Cooper Albright. -- Dancing in the Field: Notes from Memory / Sally Ann Ness -- Pt. II. World Dance Traditions. -- Looking at World Dance / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright. -- Trance and Ecstatic Dance / Erika Bourgignon. -- Bharatha Natyam - What Are You? / Avanthi Meduri. -- Medicine of the Brave: A Look at the Changing Role of Dance in Native Culture from the Buffalo Days to the Modern Powwow / Lisa Doolittle and Heather Elton. -- The Belly Dance: Ancient Ritual to Cabaret Performance / Shawna Helland. -- Changing Images and Shifting Identities: Female Performers in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk. -- Commonalties in African Dance: An Aesthetic Foundation / Kariamu Welsh Asante. -- Invention and Reinvention in the Traditional Arts / Z. S. Strother. -- Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions / Barbara Browning. -- Epitome of Korean Folk Dance / Lee Kyong-hee. -- The Many Faces of Korean Dance / Judy Van Zile. -- Writing Dancing / Mark Franko. -- Beyond La Danse Noble: Conventions in Choreography and Dance Performance at the Time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie / Catherine Turocy. -- The Travesty Dancer in Nineteenth-Century Ballet / Lynn Garafola. -- Interrupted Continuities: Modern Dance in Germany / Susan Allene Manning and Melissa Benson -- Pt. III. America Dancing. -- Historical Moments: Rethinking the Past / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright. -- The Irresistible Other: Hopi Ritual Drama and Euro-American Audiences / Sharyn R. Udall. -- Juba and American Minstrelsy / Marian Hannah Winter. -- Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 / Jane Desmond. -- Two-Stepping to Glory: Social Dance and the Rhetoric of Social Mobility / Julie Malnig. -- The Natural Body / Ann Daly. -- Form as the Image of Human Perfectibility and Natural Order / Deborah Jowitt. -- The Harsh and Splendid Heroines of Martha Graham / Marcia B. Siegel. -- The Dance Is a Weapon / Ellen Graff. -- In His Image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein / Nancy Reynolds. -- Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild. -- Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance / Thomas DeFrantz. -- Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater / Sally Banes. -- Chance Heroes / Deborah Jowitt -- Pt. IV. Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts. -- Moving Contexts / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright. -- Butoh: "Twenty Years Ago we Were Crazy, Dirty, and Mad" / Bonnie Sue Stein. -- Dancing on the Endangered List: Aesthetics and Politics of Indigenous Dance in the Philippines / Kathleen Foreman. -- Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification / Ananya Chatterjea. -- Ananya and Chandralekha - A Response to "Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification" / Uttara Coorlawala. -- Looking at Movement as Culture: Contact Improvisation to Disco / Cynthia Jean and Cohen Bull. -- 10,000 Jams Later: Contact Improvisation in Canada 1974-95 / Peter Ryan. -- Improvisation Is a Word for Something That Can't Keep a Name / Steve Paxton. -- Simply(?) the Doing of It, Like Two Arms Going Round and Round / Susan Leigh Foster. -- Embodying History: Epic Narrative and Cultural Identity in African American Dance / Ann Cooper Albright. -- A Little Technology Is a Dangerous Thing / Richard Povall. -- Technique/Technology/Technique / Lisa Marie Naugle. -- Absent/Presence / Ann Dils.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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