Moving history / dancing cultures : a dance history reader /
"This collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion."--cover.
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyn University Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Thinking about dance history: theories and practices
- The pleasures of studying dance history / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright
- Beyond description : writing beneath the surface / Deborah Jowitt
- Imagining dance / Joan Acocella
- Searching for Narjinsky's Sacre / Millicent Hodson
- Five premises for a culturally sensitive approach to dance / Deidre Sklar
- An anthropoligist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomokuu
- The trouble with the male dancer... / Ramsay Burt
- Strategic abilities : negotiating the disabled body in dance / Ann Cooper Albright
- Dancing in the field : notes from memory / Sally Ann Ness
- World dance traditions
- Looking at world dance / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright
- Trance and ecstatic dance / Erika Bourginon
- Bharatha natyam-- what are you? / Avanthi Meduri
- Medicine of the brave : a look at the changing role of dance in native culture from the buffalo days to the modern powwow / Lisa Doolittle and Heather Elton
- The belly dance : ancient ritual to cabaret performance / Shawna Helland
- Changing images and shifting identities : female performers in Egypt / Karin van Kieuwkerk
- Commonalities in African dance : an aesthetic foundation / Kariamu Welsh Asante
- Invention and reinvention in the traditional arts / Z. S. Strother
- Headspin : Capoeira's ironic inversions / Barbara Browning
- Epitome of Korean folk dance / Lee Kyong-hee
- The many faces of Korean dance / Judy Van Zile
- Writing dancing / Mark Franko
- Beyond la danse noble : conventions in choreography and dance performance at the time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie / Catherine Turocy
- The travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet / Lynn Garafola
- Interrupted continuities : modern dance in Germany / Susan Allene Manning and Melissa Benson
- America dancing
- Historical moments : rethinking the past / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright
- The irresistible other : Hopi ritual drama and Euro-American audiences / Sharyn R. Udall
- Juba and American minstrelsy / Marian Hannah Winter
- Dancing out the difference : cultural imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 / Jane Desmond
- Two-stepping to glory : social dance and the rhetoric of social mobility / Julie Malnig
- The natural body / Ann Daly
- Form as the image of human perfectibility and natural order / Deborah Jowitt
- The harsh and splendid heroines of Martha Graham / Marcia B. Siegel
- The dance is a weapon / Ellen Graff
- In his image : Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein / Nancy Reynolds
- Stripping the emperor : the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild
- Simmering passivity : the black male body in concert dance / Thomas DeFrantz
- Choreographic methods of the Judson dance theater / Sally Banes
- Chance heroes / Deborah Jowitt
- Contemporary dance: global contexts
- Moving contexts / Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright
- Butoh : "twenty years ago we were crazy, dirty, and mad" / Bonnie Sue Stein
- Dancing on the endangered list : aesthetics and politics of indigenous dance in the Philippines / Kathleen Foreman
- Chandralekha : negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification / Ananya Chatterjea
- Ananya and Chandralekha-- a response to "Chandralekha : negotiating the female body and movement in cultural/political signification" / Uttara Coorlawala
- Looking at movement as culture : contact improvisation to disco / Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull
- 10,000 jams later : contact improvisation in Canada 1974-95 / Peter Ryan
- Improvisation is a word for something that can't keep a name / Steve Paxton
- Simply(?) the doing of it, like two arms going round and round / Susan Leigh Foster
- Embodying history : epic narrative and cultural identity in African American dance / Ann Cooper Albright
- A little technology is a dangerous thing / Richard Povall
- Technique/technology/technique / Lisa Marie Naugle
- Absent/presence / Ann Dils.