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Dancing Communities Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City

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ISBN-10: 0230000037

ISBN-13: 9780230000032

Edition: 2007

Authors: Judith Hamera, Janelle Reinelt, Brian Singleton

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Description:

Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption, but also as vernaculars connecting individuals who may otherwise have little in common. This book offers amateur and concert dance as laboratories that teach us to live and work productively together.
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Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 11/8/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 257
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Preface
Introduction: Dancing the City
Aesthetics, technique, and the social lives of dance
Dancing places, placing dances
Joyful attachments
Intimacies in Motion
Protocols for Intimacy
Reforming Intimacy in Pilates Training
Corporeal verities, metaphoric ambiguities
Romancing Monsters, Consuming Looks
Possessing performance and/as the play of the vicarious
Defining virtuosity, engaging monstrosity
Oguri: sacred monster
Technologies of monstrosity
Corporeal Chronotopes: Making Place and Keeping Time in Ballet
Bodies in Time and Space: Corporeal Chronotopes in Ballet
Keeping time
Taking, and making, place
Corporeal chronotopes
Home Girls: Gendered Self-Fashioning and Solidarity At Le Studio
Where the heart is: three stories of ballet in Los Angeles
Parental investments, cultural capital
Hiding in the light
On her toes: pains and pleasures of creation in community
Home Boys on Fault Lines: Masculinity At Le Studio
Standing out: consolidating homosociality in dancing communities
Anxious pedagogy, ambivalent agency
'Saving' Khmer Classical Dance in Long Beach
Answerable bodies/unclaimed experience
Technologies of answerability
Dancing Other-Wise: Ethics, Difference and Transcendence in Hae Kyung Lee and Dancers
'The universe's piece'
Referent trouble and the metaphysical performative
'Giving energy'
Energy, ethics and corporeal commitments
'Human on stage'
Metaphysical performatives and alterity
Metaphysical vocabularies and reading choreography
'...like the words I cannot find, beyond words...': dancing the ethical transformation of grief
Conclusion: Dancing Communities - Ideas of Order, Queer Intimacies, Civic Infrastructure
Notes
Works Cited
Index