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Rethinking Dance History A Reader

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ISBN-10: 0415287464

ISBN-13: 9780415287463

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alexandra Carter, Geraldine Morris, Larraine Nicholas

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From theballet de coursof the 17th century to Matthew Bourne'sSwan Lake, this fascinating selection of new writing invites the reader to revisit key moments in the history of western theater dance practice. By taking a fresh approach to the study of history in general, Alexandra Carter'sRethinking Dance Historyoffers new perspectives on important periods in dance history and seeks to address some of the gaps and silences left within that history. Encompassing ballet, South Asian and modern dance forms, this book provides exciting new research on topics as diverse as: --The Victorian Music Hall --Film musicals and popular music videos --The impact of Neoclassical fashion on ballet --Women's…    
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Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/2/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 212
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

RACHEL FENSHAMnbsp;Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research is currently focused on theatre spectatorship and a study of transnational choreographic histories. Publications include To Watch Theatre (Peter Lang, 2009) and journal articles in New Theatre Quarterly and Discourses on Dance. ALEXANDRA CARTER Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University,nbsp;UK. She edited the Routledge Dance Studies Reader (1998, 2010), and Rethinking Dance History (2004), and sole authored Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet (2005). She has also published widely on gender and historiographical concepts and methodologies.

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Making history : a general introduction
Destabilising the discipline : critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance
Many sources, many voices
Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice
'Queering' the king : a remedial approach to reading masculinity in dance
A longing for perfection : neoclassic fashion and ballet
Cara Tranders's reveries : the autobiography of Cara Tranders, ballet girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99
Considering causation and conditions of possibility : practitioners and patrons of new dance in progressive-era America
Katherine Dunham's floating island of negritude : the Katherine Dunham Dance Company in London and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s
German dance and modernity : don't mention the Nazis
Dancing in the margins? British modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s
"Dancin' in the street" : street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson
Contestations : constructing a historical narrative for Odissi
Matthew Bourne, dance history and Swan Lake
Concept and presence : the contemporary European dance scene
Index