The Routledge dance studies reader / edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea

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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Edition: 2nd ed., [updated]Description: xvii, 405 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780415485999 (rúst.)
9780415485982 (cart.)

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Dance studies reader [Cover title]

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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

Summary: "The second edition of The Routledge Dance Studies Reader offers fresh critical perspectives on classic and modern dance forms, including ballroom, tango, Hip-hop, site-specific performance, and disability in dance. Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea deliver a substantially revised and updated collection of key texts, featuring an enlightening new introduction, which tracks differing approaches to dance studies. Important articles from the first edition are accompanied by twenty new works by leading critical voices. The articles are presented in five thematic sections, each with a new editorial introduction and further reading" -- Web editorial

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	793.5 ROU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900073690

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"The second edition of The Routledge Dance Studies Reader offers fresh critical perspectives on classic and modern dance forms, including ballroom, tango, Hip-hop, site-specific performance, and disability in dance. Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea deliver a substantially revised and updated collection of key texts, featuring an enlightening new introduction, which tracks differing approaches to dance studies. Important articles from the first edition are accompanied by twenty new works by leading critical voices. The articles are presented in five thematic sections, each with a new editorial introduction and further reading" -- Web editorial

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