Valuing Dance - Commodities and Gifts in Motion

Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making.

About the author

Susan Leigh Foster, choreographer and scholar, is the author of numerous books and essays and editor of several anthologies on dance and the body. Three of her danced lectures can be found at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage website http://danceworkbook.pcah.us/susan-foster/index.html.

Summary

Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making.

Additional text

'Actions create value,' Susan Leigh Foster argues in her bold and brilliant Valuing Dance. But what kind of value, labor, and systems of exchange give dance its value? As she moves us through the economies of gift and commodity exchange, Foster advocates for choreographies that offer more just and sustainable futures. This work is a necessary intervention for scholars across a broad range of disciplines.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Leigh Foster, Susan Leigh (Distinguished Professor in th Foster
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780190933975
• ISBN: 978-0-19-093397-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Theatre Studies