TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daly,Ann
TI  - Critical gestures: writings on dance and culture 
SN  - 0819565660 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - GV1783. D35 2002
U1  - 792.8 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Middletown, Conn.
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
KW  - Modern dance
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Feminism and dance
KW  - Dance criticism
N1  - Includes index; Introduction --; I; Writing Dance --; Pina Bausch --; Tanztheater: The Thrill of the Lynch Mob or the Rage of a Woman? --; Pina Bausch Goes West to Prospect for Imagery --; Love Mysterious and Familiar: Pina Bausch Brings Her Visceral Non Sequiturs to Austin --; Remembered Gesture --; Mellower Now, A Resolute Romantic Keeps Trying --; Deborah Hay --; Review: The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom --; The Play of Dance: An Introduction to Lamb, Lamb, Lamb, Lamb, Lamb,. --; No Exit: Deborah Hay's Latest Work a Meditation and Celebration in Space and Time --; An Experimentalist in Soul and Body --; Horse Rider Woman Playing Dancing: Ann Daly Interviews Deborah Hay --; Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane --; Dance at Prospect Park: High Art, Lowbrow Spectacle --; Review: Body against Body, edited by Elizabeth Zimmer and Susan Quasha --; Dancing the Unsayable: Bill T. Jones's Still/Here Becomes a Meditation on the Possibilities of Postmodernist Art --; When Dancers Move On to Making Dances --; The Long Day's Journey of Bill T. Jones --; Bill T. Jones in Conversation with Ann Daly --; Voice Lessons --; Ralph Lemon --; Review: Ralph Lemon Repertory Concert --; Conversations about Race in the Language of Dance --; Afterword --; Review: Kei Takei's Light, Part 20 & 21 (Diary of the Dream) and Tetsu Maeda's Evocations --; Review: Fred Holland's Harbor/Cement --; Review: Jane Comfort's TV Love --; Review: Kazuo Ohno's Admiring La Argentina and Kuniko Kisanuki's Tefu Tefu --; Review: Molissa Fenley Repertory Concert --; Review: Gwall's Exit --; Review: Lucinda Childs Repertory Concert --; Review: Merce Cunningham's Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake --; New York (USA): Experimental Dance --; Review: John Kelly's Ode to a Cube --; Review: Ralf Ralf's The Summit --; Molissa Fenley's State of Darkness --; Review: Susan Marshall's Interior with Seven Figures --; Review: Dana Reitz's Suspect Terrain --; Review: Nina Martin's Changing Face and Date with Fate --; Susan Marshall Choreography Explores Traged, Joy --; Review: Merce Cunningham Repertory Concert and Robert Wilson's Four Saints in Three Acts --; The Choreography of Crisis: Women, Machines and Utopia Lost --; Ballet with Attitude (or The Ballet of the Sexes) --; Margery Segal's Primal Emotions --; No Gravity No Boundary --; The Freedom of Tradition --; A Chronicle Faces Death and Celebrates Life --; A Dancer Discovers a World of Profit and Daredevil Feats --; New York (USA): Dance and Fashion --; John Singer Sargent and the Dance --; Lois Greenfield, the Frames That Bind, and the Metaphysics of Dance --; Becoming Artaud: Solo Performances at Drawing Center Expand MOMA Exhibit --; Body of Evidence: Schneemann Retrospective Exposes Subversive Gestures --; An Inspiration Compounded of Hands and Feet --; Turning a Photographer's Vision into Choreography --; What Dance Has to Say about Beauty --; Review: Sondra Horton Fraleigh's Dance and the Lived Body --; "What Revolution?": The New Dance Scholarship in America --; Review: Martha Graham's Blood Memory and Agnes de Mille's Martha --; Review: A Cultural History of Gesture, edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg --; Alvin Ailey Revealed --; Postmodernism and American New Dance --; BAM and Beyond: The Postmoderns Get Balleticized --; The Closet Classicist --; Darkness into Light: A Decade in the West Transforms a Butoh Troupe --; Finding the Logic of Difference --; Dancing: A Letter from New York City --; Some Sentences by and about Merce Cunningham --; New World A-Comin': A Century of Jazz and Modern Dance --; In Dance, Preserving a Precarious Legacy Begins Onstage --; II; Making History --; Review: From the Repertory of Isadora Duncan's "Soviet Workers' Songs" --; The Continuing Beauty of the Curve: Isadora Duncan and Her Last Compositions --; Review: Millicent Dillon's After Egypt --; Isadora Duncan in 1920s America: "A Bolshevik Shade of Red" --; Review: Lillian Loewenthal's The Search for Isadora --; Isadora Duncan and the Distinction of Dance --; Isdora Duncan's Dance Theory --; A Fearless Confession Heard Round the World --; III; Theorizing Gender --; The Balanchine Woman: Of Hummingbirds and Channel Swimmers --; Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference --; To Dance Is "Female" --; Unlimited Partnership: Dance and Feminist Analysis --; Dance History and Feminist Theory: Reconsidering Isadora Duncan and the Male Gaze --; About Interpretation: Joann McNamara Interviews Ann Daly --; Gender Issues in Dance History Pedagogy --; "Woman," Women, and Subversion: Some Nagging Questions from a Dance Historian --; Trends in Dance Scholarship: Feminist Theory across the Millennial Divide --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
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