Dance Discourses Keywords in Dance Research

Name: Dance Discourses Keywords in Dance Research
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ISBN: 9780415423090

ISBN-10: 0415423090

ISBN-13: 9780415423090

Edition: 2008

Authors: Susanne Franco, Marina Nordera

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Focusing on Politics, Gender, and Identities, a group of international dance scholars provide a broad overview ofnbsp;new methodological approachesnbsp; with specific case studiesnbsp; and how they can be applied to the study of ballet and modern dance. With an introduction exploring the history of dance studies and the development of central themes and areas of concerns in the field, the book is then divided into three parts: politics explores 'Ausdruckstanz'nbsp; an expressive dance tradition first formulated in the 1920s by dancer Mary Wigman and carried forward in the work of Pina Bausch and others gender examines eighteenthnbsp;century theatrical dancenbsp; a time when elaborate…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Keyword: Politics


Topic: Ausdruckstanz


State-of-the-art



Dance and the political: states of exception



Case studies



Fritz Bï¿½hme (1881-1952): archeology of an ideologue




Ausdruckstanz across the Atlantic




Ausdruckstanz on the left and the work of Jean Weidt



Perspectives



Ausdruckstanz: traditions, translations, transmissions




Keyword: Feminine/Masculine


Topic: Theatrical Dance in the Eighteenth Century


State-of-the-art



Feminine/Masculine



Case studies



Dido's otherness: choreographing race and gender in the ballet d'action




Danseuses and danseurs at the Opï¿½ra de Paris (1700-25) according to the cast lists in the libretto-programs




A balance lost: staging the body and controlling social mobility during the French Revolution



Perspectives



Gender underway: notes for histories yet to be written




Keyword: Identities


Topic: Contemporary Dance


State-of-the-art



Dance, identity, and identification processes in the postcolonial world



Case studies



Resistant identities: Anderson and Ruckert




Donald Byrd: re/making "beauty"




Dispositif trouble: when what is said is not what is shown



Perspectives



Identity, the contemporary, and the dancers



Name index