Dance, Space, and Subjectivity

Name: Dance, Space, and Subjectivity
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ISBN: 9780230508538

ISBN-10: 0230508537

ISBN-13: 9780230508538

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Authors: Valerie A. Briginshaw

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This book contains close readings of postmodern dances and dance films informed by current critical theories. It explores the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity. Focusing on site-specific dance, the mutual construction of bodies and spaces, body/space interfaces and 'in-between spaces', the dances and dance films are read 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual, able-bodied male norm. The works of choreographers such as Lea Anderson, Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, William Forsythe, Shobana Jeyasingh and Mark Morris are informed by the theories…

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List price: $110.00
Publisher: Ebsco Publishing
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 242
Language: English

VALERIE A. BRIGINSHAWis a retired Professor of Dance, Chichester University, UK. Her publications includeWriting Dancing Togetherand chapters inAnalysing Performance,Dance in the City,Preservation Politics,Performing NatureandAnarchic Dance.