Choreographing Difference The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance

Name: Choreographing Difference The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance
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ISBN: 9780819563217

ISBN-10: 0819563218

ISBN-13: 9780819563217

Edition: 1997

Authors: Ann Cooper Albright

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The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity -- a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 11/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Witnessing Dance


Mining the Dancefield: Feminist Theory and Contemporary Dance


Techno Bodies: Muscling with Gender in Contemporary Dance


Moving Across Difference: Dance and Disability


Incalculable Choreographies


Dancing Bodies and the Stories They Tell


Embodying History: Epic Narrative and the Cultural Identity in African-American Dance


Appendix


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index