How to Make Dances in an Epidemic Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS

Name: How to Make Dances in an Epidemic Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS
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ISBN: 9780299200848

ISBN-10: 0299200841

ISBN-13: 9780299200848

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Gere

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nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;David Gere, who came of age as a dance critic at the height of the AIDS epidemic, offers the first book to examine in depth the interplay of AIDS and choreography in the United States, specifically in relation to gay men. The time he writes about is one of extremes. A life-threatening medical syndrome is spreading, its transmission linked to sex. Blame is settling on gay men. What is possible in such a highly charged moment, when art and politics coincide? nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Gere expands the definition of choreography to analyze not only theatrical dances but also the protests conceived by ACT-UP and the NAMES Project AIDS quilt. These exist on a continuum in which…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 9/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Blood and Sweat


Melancholia and Fetishes


Monuments and Insurgencies


Corpses and Ghosts


Transcendence and Eroticism


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index