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Routledge Dance Studies Reader

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ISBN-10: 0415485991

ISBN-13: 9780415485999

Edition: 2nd 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Alexandra Carter, Janet O'Shea, Jens Giersdorf, Yutian Wong

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List price: $34.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 1/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
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.

Roots/routes of Dance Studies
Making Dance
Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton
Torse: there are no fixed points in space Merce Cunningham
Recovering Hurston, reconsidering the choreographer
Reworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in Swan Lake, 4 Acts
Making space, speaking spaces
Reflections on new directions in Indian dance Chandralekha
What's it worth to ya? Adaptation and anachronism: Rennie Harris' PureMovement & Shakespeare
Performing Dance
I am a dancer
Tracing the past: writing history through the body Ann
Cabbages and kings: disability, dance and some timely considerations
Hips, Hip-notism, Hip(g)nosis: the mulata performances of Nin�n Sevilla Melissa
Still curious
Ways of Looking
Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered
A tapestry of intertexts: dance analysis for the twenty-first century
Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco
Getting off the Orient Express
Bridging the critical distance
Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953)
Locating Dance in History and Society
In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period
Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity
Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances
Gambling femininity: tango wallflowers and femmes fatales
Choreographing a flexible Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Taiwan's changing identity
Reality check: Dancing with the Stars and the American dream
From interculturalism to historicism: reflections on classical Indian dance
Debating the Discipline
Choreographing history Susan
Differentiating phenomenology and dance
Dance Studies in the international academy: genealogy of a disciplinary formation
Shifting perspectives on dance ethnography
Slam dancing with the boundaries of theory and practice: the legitimization of popular dance
What is Art?