Dancing bodies, living histories : new writings about dance and culture / New writings about dance and culture. edited by Lisa Doolittle, Anne Flynn. - xxv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edited papers from a conference held Jan. 1999 at the University of Calgary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Pas de Deux of women and handbags / Choreographing queer: nationalism, citizenship, and lesbian dance clubs / Blood wedding: tradition and innovation in contemporary flamenco / Gendered movement in romantic ballet: an analysis of Teresina in Bournonville's Napoli / Stepping out of attitude: La Fanfarlo and autobiography / Reflections on the Aboriginal Dance Program / Lessons in dance (as) history: aboriginal land claims and aboriginal dance, circa 1999 / They were singing and dancing in the mountains / Ballet in black: Louis Johnson and African American vernacular humour in ballet / Melville Herskovits, Katherine Dunham, and the politics of African diasporic dance anthropology / Dance and intertexutality: theoretical reflections / Dancing in the Canadian wasteland: a post-colonial reading of regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s / M.J. Thompson -- B.J. Wray -- Michelle Heffner Hayes -- Kristin M. Harris -- Sarah Davies Cordova -- Marrie Mumford -- Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- Cheryl Blood-(Rides-at-the-)Doore -- Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Kate Ramsey -- Naomi M. Jackson -- Lisa Doolittle, Anne Flynn. EVERYDAY MOVING -- WORKING WOMEN DANCING -- INNOVATING AND PERPETUATING -- RETRIEVING --

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Dance--Anthropological aspects--Congresses
Dance--History--Congresses

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