TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Alexandra
AU  - O'Shea,Janet
TI  - The Routledge dance studies reader
SN  - 0415485991
AV  - GV1594 .R68 2010
U1  - 792.8 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Dance
KW  - Modern dance
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Sociological aspects
N1  - 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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