Worlding Dance

What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches.

List of contents

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Worlding Dance - An Introduction; S.L.Foster The Power of Classification; L.Hammergren Mobilizing (in) the Archive: Santee Smith's Kaha:wi ; J.S.Murphy A "Material"-ist Reading of the Bharata Natyam Dancing Body: The Possibility of the "Unruly Spectator"; P.Srinivasan Race-ing Choreographic Copyright; A.Kraut Choreographies and Choreographers; S.L.Foster Red-stained Feet: Probing the Ground On Which Women Dance in Contemporary Bengal; A.Chatterjea Artistic Utopias: Michio Ito and the Trope of the International; Y.Wong Worlding Dance and Dancing Out There in the World; M.E.Savigliano Works Cited Index

Report

'The range of articles makes Foster's collection both methodologically and thematically an invaluable resource far beyond dance, and relevant for anyone in performance and theatre studies wrestling with the complexity of writing history from a global perspective.'
- Sabine Sörgel, Aberystwyth University, UK, Theatre Research International

Product details

• Authors: Susan Leigh Foster
• Assisted by: Foster (Editor), S Foster (Editor), S. Foster (Editor), Susan Leigh Foster (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2009
• EAN: 9780230298385
• ISBN: 978-0-230-29838-5
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 217 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Studies in International Performance; Studies in International Perfo; Studies in International Perfo; Studies in International Performance
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; B, Dance, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, dance;dancing;Utopia;women