Rethinking dance history : a reader / [edited by] Alexandra Carter.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: x, 196 pISBN:- 0415287464(hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415287472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 792.809 21
- GV1781 .R48 2004
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792.809 ORI The origins of the Bolero School / | 792.809 PRE Dance for export : cultural diplomacy and the Cold War / | 792.809 PRE Preservation politics : dance revived, reconstructed, remade / | 792.809 RET Rethinking dance history : a reader / | 792.809 SIE Mirrors & scrims : the life and afterlife of ballet / | 792.80904 GAR Legacies of twentieth-century dance / | 792.80904 REY No fixed points : dance in the twentieth century / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Making history : a general introduction / Alexandra Carter -- 2. Destabilising the discipline : critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance / Alexandra Carter -- 3. Many sources, many voices / Lena Hammergren -- 4. Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice / Helen Thomas -- 5. 'Queering' the king : a remedial approach to reading masculinity in dance / Chris Roebuck -- 6. A longing for perfection : neoclassic fashion and ballet / Judith Chazin-Bennahum -- 7. Cara Tranders's reveries : the autobiography of Cara Tranders, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99 / Cara Tranders -- 8. Considering causation and conditions of possibility : practitioners and patrons of new dance in progressive-era America / Linda J. Tomko -- 9. Katherine Dunham's floating island of negritude : the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in London and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s / Ramsay Burt -- 10. German dance and modernity : don't mention the Nazis / Marion Kant -- 11. Dancing in the margins? British modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s / Larraine Nicholas -- 12. "Dancin' in the street" : street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson / Beth Genne -- 13. Contestations : constructing a historical narrative for Odissi / Ananya Chatterjee -- 14. Matthew Bourne, dance history and Swan Lake / Alastair Macaulay -- 15. Concept and presence : the contemporary European dance scene / Andre Lepecki.
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