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Zusatztext This book will be useful to those interested in penetrating the physical existence of dance to investigate its significance as a human practice that is political by its very nature. Informationen zum Autor Rebekah Kowal is Associate Professor of Dance at The University of Iowa where she teaches courses in dance history and theory. Her first book, How to Do Things with Dance: Performing Change in Postwar America (Wesleyan University Press, 2010) investigates how moving bodies are compelling agents of social, cultural and political change. Her current project assesses the impact of postwar global dance performance on American concert dance formations and in the context of U.S. foreign relations, immigration and trade policies, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and citizenship.Gerald Siegmund is Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany where he teaches courses in theatre and dance history, theory, and aesthetics. He has published widely on contemporary dance and theatre. Amongst his publications are William Forsythe - Denken in Bewegung (Henschel Verlag, 2004) and Dance, Politics, and Co-Immunity (together with Stefan Hölscher, Diaphanes2013).Randy Martin (1957-2015) was Professor of Art and Public Policy at New York University and founder of the graduate program in arts politics. He published many books as author or editor, including The Financialization of Daily Life and Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor and the Professional Turn; An Empire of Indifference; Critical Moves and On Your Marx. An edited volume is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press: Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies, with Benjamin Lee. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics presents cutting edge research investigating not only how dance achieves its politics, but also how notions of the political are themselves expanded when viewed from the perspective of dance. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics presents cutting edge research investigating not only how dance achieves its politics, but also how notions of the political are themselves expanded when viewed from the perspective of dance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics - Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin Part I: Dancing Structures Section I. The Political Economy of Dance 2. Tracking the Political Economy of Dance - Jane Desmond 3. Dance and/as Competition in the U.S. Privately Owned Studio - Susan Foster 4. Racing in Place: A Meta-Memoir on Dance, Politics, and Practice - Brenda Dixon Gottschild 5. Epiphanic Moments: Dancing Politics - Cynthia Oliver 6. Performing Collectively, Performing Collectivity - Kai van Eikels Section II. The Politics of Choreography 7. Urban Choreographies. Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Urban Space - Gabriele Klein 8. The Politics of Speculative Imagination in Contemporary Choreography - Andre Lepecki 9. Toward a Choreo-Political Theory of Articulation - Mark Franko 10. Rehearsing In-Difference: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Performances of Pina Bausch and Jérôme Bel - Gerald Siegmund 11. Problem as a Choreographic and Philosophical Kind of Thought - Bojana Cvejic Section III. The Politics of Embodiment 12. The Politics of Perception - Ann Cooper Albright 13. The Politics of Speaking About the Body - Ramsay Burt 14. Dancing Disabled: Phenomenology and Embodied Politics - Petra Kuppers 15. Of Corporeal Re-writings, Translations, and the Politics of Difference in Dancing - Ananya Chatterjea 16. Planning for Death's Surprise: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham - Peggy Phelan Part 2: Dancing Interventions Section IV. The Politics of Histories 17. Dancing D-Day - Felicia McCarren 18. China in the Throes of Modernization: In...
