| Description |
xviii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Thinking abut dance history : theories and practices: 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 -- |
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World dance traditions: 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 -- |
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America dancing: 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 -- |
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Contemporary dance : global contexts: 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. |
| Summary |
"This collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion."--Cover. |
| Subject |
Dance -- History.
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Dance. (OCoLC)fst00887402
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Tanz. (DE-588)4059028-8
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Kulturvergleich. (DE-588)4114328-0
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Geschichte.
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Tanz.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Added Author |
Dils, Ann.
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Albright, Ann Cooper.
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| Added Title |
Dancing cultures |
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Dance history reader |
| ISBN |
0819564125 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780819564122 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0819564133 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780819564139 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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