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Zusatztext Theatre & Dance is an endlessly useful book … Elswit’s text manages the difficult task of distilling with energy, clarity, and insight an interdisciplinary and often contentious conversation about performance histories, aesthetics, and practices. Informationen zum Autor Kate Elswit is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. Klappentext This succinct and engaging text explores the interdependence between theatre and dance. Making a compelling case for the significance of resisting genre distinctions in the arts, Kate Elswit demonstrates why and how the ampersand between theatre and dance needs to be understood as the rule, rather than the exception. This illuminating guide focuses on the interconnected ecosystems of practice that constitute performance history, the expansion of theatre and dance forms on contemporary North American and European stages, and the disciplinary methods that scholars use today to understand such practices, both past and present. Accessible and affordable, this is an ideal resource for theatre students and lovers everywhere. Zusammenfassung This succinct and engaging text explores the interdependence between theatre and dance. Inhaltsverzeichnis "Theatre," "&," "Dance" Interlude: Participatory Theatre Does Dance Marathons Interconnected Histories Interlude: Verbatim Theatre Does Bharatanatyam Expanding Forms Interlude: Dance History Does Greek Tragic Drama Overlapping Methods Interlude: Downtown Dance Does Musical Theatre Conclusion Outrolude: European Dance Theatre does European Vernacular Dance and Theatre
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Kate Elswit is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK.
