Corporealities : dancing, knowledge, culture, and power / edited by Susan Leigh Foster. - xvii, 263 : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-260) and index.

The ballerina's phallic pointe / Susan Leigh Foster -- History/theory, criticism/practice / Mark Franko -- The re-turn of the flâneuse / Lena Hammergren -- Antique longings : Genevieve Stebbins and American Delsartean performance / Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter -- Dance and the history of hysteria / Peggy Phelan -- Lifelessness in movement, or how do the dead move? Tracing displacement and disappearance for movement performance / Heidi Gilpin -- Dancing in the field : notes from memory / Sally Ann Ness -- Fete accompli : gender, "folk-dance," and Progressive-era political ideals in New York City / Linda J. Tomko -- Overreading The promised land : towards a narrative of context in dance / Randy Martin -- Fragments for a story of tango bodies (on Choreocritics and the memory of power) / Marta E. Savigliano.

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Human body--Social aspects.
Human body--Symbolic aspects
Dance--Social aspects

GN298 / .C67 1996

306.4846