Routledge Dance Studies Reader

Informationen zum Autor Alexandra Carter is Professor in Dance Studies at Middlesex University. She edited The Routledge Dance Studies Reader (1998) and Rethinking Dance History (2004). A sole-authored book on gender and ballet in the Victorian music halls was published in 2005.? She is on the Editorial Board of Dance Theatre Journal and Dancelines (Research in Dance Education).Janet O'Shea is Associate Professor in World Arts and Cultures! University of California! Los Angeles. Her book At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage (University of Wesleyan Press! 2007) received the Association for Asian Studies First Book Subvention Award. Klappentext The second edition of The Routledge Dance Studies Reader offers fresh critical perspectives on classic and modern dance forms! including ballroom! tango! Hip-hop! site-specific performance! and disability in dance. Alexandra Carter and Janet OShea deliver a substantially revised and updated collection of key texts! featuring an enlightening new introduction! which tracks differing approaches to dance studies. Important articles from the first edition are accompanied by twenty new works by leading critical voices. The articles are presented in five thematic sections! each with a new editorial introduction and further reading. Sections cover: Making dance Performing dance Ways of looking Locating dance in history and society Debating the discipline The Routledge Dance Studies Reader gives readers access to over thirty essential texts on dance and provides expert guidance on their critical context. It is a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding dance from a global and contemporary perspective. Zusammenfassung The second edition of The Routledge Dance Studies Reader offers fresh critical perspectives on classic and modern dance forms! including ballroom! tango! Hip-hop! site-specific performance! and disability in dance.Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea deliver a substantially revised and updated collection of key texts! featuring an enlightening new introduction! which tracks differing approaches to dance studies. Important articles from the first edition are accompanied by twenty new works by leading critical voices. The articles are presented in five thematic sections! each with a new editorial introduction and further reading. Sections cover:Making dancePerforming danceWays of lookingLocating dance in history and societyDebating the disciplineThe Routledge Dance Studies Reader gives readers access to over thirty essential texts on dance and provides expert guidance on their critical context. It is a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding dance from a global and contemporary perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Roots/routes of Dance Studies Janet O'Shea Part 1: Making Dance 2. Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton Annabel Farjeon 3. Torse: there are no fixed points in space Merce Cunningham with Jacqueline Lesschaeve 4. Recovering Hurston! reconsidering the choreographer Anthea Kraut 5. Reworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in Swan Lake! 4 Acts Vida Midgelow6. Making space! speaking spaces Carol Brown 7. Reflections on new directions in Indian dance Chandralekha 8. What's it worth to ya? Adaptation and anachronism: Rennie Harris' PureMovement & Shakespeare Anna Scott Part 2: Performing Dance 9. I am a dancer Martha Graham 10. Tracing the past: writing history through the body Ann Cooper Albright 11. Cabbages and kings: disability! dance and some timely considerations Adam Benjamin 12. Hips! Hip-notism! Hip(g)nosis: the mulata performances of Ninón Sevilla Melissa Blanco Borelli13. Still curious Emilyn Claid Part3: Ways of Looking 14. Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered Stephanie Jordan & Helen Thomas 15. A tapestry of intertexts: dance analysis for the twenty-first century Janet Lansdale 16. Looking at movement as culture: ...

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• Authors: &apos, Carol Brown, Alexandra O''''shea Carter, Richard Dyer, Jens Wong Giersdorf, John Mueller, Janet Cart shea
• Assisted by: Alexandra Carter (Editor), Jens Giersdorf (Editor), Jens Richard Giersdorf (Editor), Janet O'Shea (Editor), Yutian Wong (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2010
• EAN: 9780415485999
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48599-9
• No. of pages: 406
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre