The Routledge dance studies reader / 
 Dance studies reader 
edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea. 
 - Second edition. 
 - xvii, 405 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Acknowledgements --  List of contributors --  General introduction --  Making dance --  Introduction --  Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton --  Torse: there are no fixed points in space --  'No' to spectacle... --  Pina Bausch: dance and emancipation --  Imaginary homelands: creating a new dance language --  Performing dance --  Introduction --  Dancers talking about performance --  I am a dancer --  A dancing consciousness --  Spacemaking: experiences of a virtual body --  Reviewing dance --  Introduction --  Bridging the critical distance --  Between description and deconstruction --  Oh, That Pineapple Rag! --  Spring: Ashton's Symphonic Variations in America --  Studying dance: conceptual concerns --  Introduction --  What is art? --  A vulnerable glance: seeing dance through phenomenology --  Dance history source materials --  Embodying difference: issues in dance and cultural studies --  An introduction to dance analysis --  Dance, gender and culture --  Choreographing history --  Locating dance in history and society --  Introduction --  Myths of origin --  In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period --  Diaghilev's cultivated audience --  Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances --  'Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life': meaning and style in African American vernacular dance --  Analysing dance --  Introduction --  Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered --  Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity --  Dances of death: Germany before Hitler --  Mark Morris: the body and what it means --  Dance and music video: some preliminary observations --  Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953) --  Bibliography --  Index.  1.  Pt. I.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  Pt. II.  7.  8.  9.  10.  Pt. III.  11.  12.  13.  14.  Pt. IV.  15.  16.  17.  18.  19.  20.  21.  Pt. V.  22.  23.  24.  25.  26.  Pt. VI.  27.  28.  29.  30.  31.  32. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415485991 9780415485999 0415485983 9780415485982 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009029912 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dance.<br/>Modern dance<br/>Dance--Philosophy<br/>Dance--Sociological aspects
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1594  / .R68 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.8