The Routledge dance studies reader / edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2010Edition: Second editionDescription: xvii, 405 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415485991
- 9780415485999
- 0415485983
- 9780415485982
- Dance studies reader
- 792.8 22
- GV1594 .R68 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1. General introduction -- Pt. I. Making dance -- Introduction -- 2. Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton -- 3. Torse: there are no fixed points in space -- 4. 'No' to spectacle... -- 5. Pina Bausch: dance and emancipation -- 6. Imaginary homelands: creating a new dance language -- Pt. II. Performing dance -- Introduction -- 7. Dancers talking about performance -- 8. I am a dancer -- 9. A dancing consciousness -- 10. Spacemaking: experiences of a virtual body -- Pt. III. Reviewing dance -- Introduction -- 11. Bridging the critical distance -- 12. Between description and deconstruction -- 13. Oh, That Pineapple Rag! -- 14. Spring: Ashton's Symphonic Variations in America -- Pt. IV. Studying dance: conceptual concerns -- Introduction -- 15. What is art? -- 16. A vulnerable glance: seeing dance through phenomenology -- 17. Dance history source materials -- 18. Embodying difference: issues in dance and cultural studies -- 19. An introduction to dance analysis -- 20. Dance, gender and culture -- 21. Choreographing history -- Pt. V. Locating dance in history and society -- Introduction -- 22. Myths of origin -- 23. In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period -- 24. Diaghilev's cultivated audience -- 25. Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances -- 26. 'Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life': meaning and style in African American vernacular dance -- Pt. VI. Analysing dance -- Introduction -- 27. Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered -- 28. Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity -- 29. Dances of death: Germany before Hitler -- 30. Mark Morris: the body and what it means -- 31. Dance and music video: some preliminary observations -- 32. Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953) -- Bibliography -- Index.
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