Moving History/Dancing Cultures : A Dance History Reader.
Ann. Dils
Bok Engelsk 2001 · Electronic books.
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- moving history / dancing cultures -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- First Steps: Moving into the Study of Dance History -- PART I-Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices -- The Pleasures of Studying Dance History -- Beyond Description: Writing beneath the Surface -- Imagining Dance -- Searching for Nijinsky's Sacre -- Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance -- An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance -- The Trouble with the Male Dancer . . . -- Strategic Abilities: Negotiating the Disabled Body in Dance -- Dancing in the Field: Notes from Memory -- Further Readings -- PART II-World Dance Traditions -- Looking at World Dance -- Trance and Ecstatic Dance -- Bharatha Natyam-What Are You? -- Medicine of the Brave: A Look at the Changing Role of Dance in Native Culture from the Buffalo Days to the Modern Powwow -- The Belly Dance: Ancient Ritual to Cabaret Performance -- Changing Images and Shifting Identities: Female Performers in Egypt -- Commonalties in African Dance: An Aesthetic Foundation -- Invention and Reinvention in the Traditional Arts -- Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions -- Epitome of Korean Folk Dance -- The Many Faces of Korean Dance -- Writing Dancing, 1573 -- Beyond La Danse Noble: Conventions in Choreography and Dance Performance at the Time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie -- The Travesty Dancer in Nineteenth-Century Ballet -- Interrupted Continuities: Modern Dance in Germany -- Further Readings -- PART III-America Dancing -- Historical Moments: Rethinking the Past -- The Irresistible Other: Hopi Ritual Drama and Euro-American Audiences Juba and American Minstrelsy -- Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 -- Two-Stepping to Glory: Social Dance and the Rhetoric of Social Mobility.. - The Natural Body -- Form as the Image of Human Perfectibility and Natural Order -- The Harsh and Splendid Heroines of Martha Graham -- The Dance Is a Weapon -- In His Image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein -- Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance -- Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance -- Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater -- Chance Heroes -- Further Readings -- PART IV-Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts -- Moving Contexts -- Butoh: "Twenty Years Ago We Were Crazy, Dirty, and Mad" -- Dancing on the Endangered List: Aesthetics and Politics of Indigenous Dance in the Philippines -- Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification -- Ananya and Chandralekha-A Response to "Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification" -- Looking at Movement as Culture: Contact Improvisation to Disco -- 10,000 Jams Later: Contact Improvisation in Canada 1974-95 -- Improvisation Is a Word for Something That Can't Keep a Name -- Simply(?) the Doing of It, Like Two Arms Going Round and Round -- Embodying History: Epic Narrative and Cultural Identity in African American Dance -- A Little Technology Is a Dangerous Thing -- Technique/Technology/Technique -- Absent/Presence -- Further Readings -- About the Contributors -- Permissions -- Index.. - A comprehensive and multifaceted anthology of dance history -- ideal for the classroom.. - Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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