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Moving history / dancing cultures : a dance history reader /

"This collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion."--Cover

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dils, Ann (Editor ), Albright, Ann Cooper (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2001]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The pleasures of studying dance history / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright
  • Beyond description : writing beneath the surface / Deborah Jowitt
  • Imagining dance / Joan Acocella
  • Searching for Nijinsky's Sacre / Millicent Hodson
  • Five premises for a culturally sensitive approach to dance / Deidre Sklar
  • An anthropologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomoku
  • The trouble with the male dancer ... / Ramsay Burt
  • Strategic abilities : negotiating the disabled body in dance / Ann Cooper Albright
  • Dancing in the field : notes from memory / Sally Ann Ness
  • Looking at world dance / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright
  • Trance and ecstatic dance / Erika Bourgignon
  • Bharatha natyam : what are you? / Avanthi Meduri
  • Medicine of the brave : a look at the changing role of dance in native culture from the buffalo days to the modern powwow / Lisa Doolittle and Heather Elton
  • The belly dance : ancient ritual to cabaret performance / Shawna Helland.
  • Changing images and shifting identities : female performers in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk
  • Commonalities in African dance : an aesthetic foundation / Kariamu Welsh Asante
  • Invention and reinvention in the traditional arts / Z.S. Strother
  • Headspin : Capoeira's ironic inversions / Barbara Browning
  • Epitome of Korean folk dance / Lee Kyong-hee
  • The many faces of Korean dance / Judy Van Zile
  • Writing dancing / Mark Franko
  • Beyond la danse noble : conventions in choreography and dance performance at the time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie / Catherine Turocy
  • The travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet / Lynn Garafola
  • Interrupted continuities : modern dance in Germany / Susan Allene Manning and Melissa Benson
  • Historical moments : rethinking the past / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright
  • The irresistible other : Hopi ritual drama and Euro-American audiences / Sharyn R. Udall
  • Juba and American minstrelsy / Marian Hannah Winter.
  • Dancing out the difference : cultural imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 / Jane Desmond
  • Two-stepping to glory : social dance and the rhetoric of social mobility / Julie Malnig
  • The natural body / Ann Daly
  • Form as the image of human perfectibility and natural order / Deborah Jowitt
  • The harsh and splendid heroines of Martha Graham / Marcia B. Siegel
  • The dance is a weapon / Ellen Graff
  • In his image : Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein / Nancy Reynolds
  • Stripping the emperor : the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild
  • Simmering passivity : the Black male body in concert dance / Thomas DeFrantz
  • Choreographic methods of the Judson dance theater / Sally Banes
  • Chance heroes / Deborah Jowitt
  • Moving contexts / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright
  • Butoh : "twenty years ago we were crazy, dirty, and mad" / Bonnie Sue Stein
  • Dancing on the endangered list : aesthetics and politics of Indigenous dance in the Philippines / Kathleen Foreman.
  • Chandralekha : negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification / Ananya Chatterjea
  • Ananya and Chandralekha : a response to "Chandralekha : negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification" / Uttara Coorlawala
  • Looking at movement as culture : contact improvisation to disco / Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull
  • 10,000 jams later : contact improvisation in Canada 1974-95 / Peter Ryan
  • Improvisation is a word for something that can't keep a name / Steve Paxton
  • Simply the doing of it, like two arms going round and round / Susan Leigh Foster
  • Embodying history : epic narrative and cultural identity in African American dance / Ann Cooper Albright
  • A little technology is a dangerous thing / Richard Povall
  • Technique/technology/technique / Lisa Marie Naugle
  • Absent/presence / Ann Dils.