How to make dances in an epidemic : tracking choreography in the age of AIDS / David Gere.

By:

Gere, David [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0299200809
9780299200800
0299200841
9780299200848

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

792.808664 22

LOC classification:

GV1588.6 .G47 2004

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

1. Blood and sweat -- 2. Melancholia and fetishes -- 3. Monuments and insurgencies -- 4. Corpses and ghosts -- 5. Transcendence and eroticism.

Summary: "David Gere, who came of age as a dance critic at the height of the AIDS epidemic, offers the first book to examine in depth the interplay of AIDS and choreography in the United States, specifically in relation to gay men. The time he writes about is one of extremes. A life-threatening medical syndrome is spreading, its transmission linked to sex. Blame is settling on gay men. What is possible in such a highly charged moment, when art and politics coincide? Gere expands the definition of choreography to analyze not only theatrical dances but also the protests conceived by ACT-UP and the NAMES Project AIDS quilt. These exist on a continuum in which dance, protest, and wrenching emotional expression have become essentially indistinguishable. Gere offers a portrait of gay male choreographers struggling to cope with AIDS and its meanings."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-332) and index.

1. Blood and sweat -- 2. Melancholia and fetishes -- 3. Monuments and insurgencies -- 4. Corpses and ghosts -- 5. Transcendence and eroticism.

"David Gere, who came of age as a dance critic at the height of the AIDS epidemic, offers the first book to examine in depth the interplay of AIDS and choreography in the United States, specifically in relation to gay men. The time he writes about is one of extremes. A life-threatening medical syndrome is spreading, its transmission linked to sex. Blame is settling on gay men. What is possible in such a highly charged moment, when art and politics coincide? Gere expands the definition of choreography to analyze not only theatrical dances but also the protests conceived by ACT-UP and the NAMES Project AIDS quilt. These exist on a continuum in which dance, protest, and wrenching emotional expression have become essentially indistinguishable. Gere offers a portrait of gay male choreographers struggling to cope with AIDS and its meanings."--Publisher description.

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