Contents:Conté: 1. Roots/routes of Dance Studies Janet O'Shea -- Part 1: Making Dance: 2. Choreographers: dancing for de Valois and Ashton / Annabel Farjeon -- 3. Torse: there are no fixed points in space / Merce Cunningham with Jacqueline Lesschaeve -- 4. Recovering Hurston, reconsidering the choreographer / Anthea Kraut -- 5. Reworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in Swan Lake, 4 Acts / Vida Midgelow -- 6. Making space, speaking spaces / Carol Brown -- 7. Reflections on new directions in Indian dance / Chandralekha -- 8. What's it worth to ya? Adaptation and anachronism: Rennie Harris' PureMovement & Shakespeare / Anna Scott. Part 2: Performing Dance: 9. I am a dancer / Martha Graham -- 10. Tracing the past: writing history through the body / Ann Cooper Albright -- 11. Cabbages and kings: disability, dance and some timely considerations Adam Benjamin -- 12. Hips, Hip-notism, Hip(g)nosis: the mulata performances of Ninón Sevilla / Melissa Blanco Borelli -- 13. Still curious / Emilyn Claid. Part 3: Ways of Looking: 14. Dance and gender: formalism and semiotics reconsidered / Stephanie Jordan & Helen Thomas --15. A tapestry of intertexts: dance analysis for the twenty-first century Janet Lansdale -- 16. Looking at movement as culture: contact improvisation to disco / Cynthia Novack -- 17. Getting off the Orient Express / Shobana Jeyasingh -- 18. Bridging the critical distance / Marcia B. Siegel -- 19. Two analyses of 'Dancing in the Dark' (The Band Wagon, 1953) / Richard Dyer and John Muller. Part 4: Locating Dance in History and Society: 20. In pursuit of the sylph: ballet in the Romantic period / Deborah Jowitt -- 21. Nijinsky: modernism and heterodox representations of masculinity / Ramsay Burt -- 22. Women writing the body: let's watch a little how she dances / Elizabeth Dempster -- 23. Gambling femininity: tango wallflowers and femmes fatales / Marta Savigliano -- 24. Choreographing a flexible Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Taiwan's changing identity / Yatin Lin -- 25. Reality check: Dancing with the Stars and the American dream / Juliet McMains -- 26. From interculturalism to historicism: reflections on classical Indian dance / Pallabi Chakravorty. Part 5: Debating the Discipline: 27. Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster -- 28. Differentiating phenomenology and dance / Philippa Rothfield -- 29. Dance Studies in the international academy: genealogy of a disciplinary formation / Jens Giersdorf -- 30. Shifting perspectives on dance ethnography / Theresa Buckland -- 31. Slam dancing with the boundaries of theory and practice: the legitimization of popular dance / Sherril Dodds -- 32. What is Art? / Betty Redfern
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