Dils, Ann & Ann Cooper Albright (eds.) — Moving history / dancing cultures : a dance history reader.

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2001. Paperback. xi, xviii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : . - This new collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion. Editors Dils and Albright address the current dearth of comprehensive teaching material in the dance history field through the creation of a multifaceted, non-linear, yet well-structured and comprehensive survey of select moments in the development of both American and World dance. This book is illustrated with over 50 photographs, and would make an ideal text for undergraduate classes in dance ethnography, criticism or appreciation, as well as dance history-particularly those with a cross-cultural, contemporary, or an American focus. The reader is organized into four thematic sections which allow for varied and individualized course use: Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices, World Dance Traditions, America Dancing, and Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts. The editors have structured the readings with the understanding that contemporary theory has thoroughly questioned the discursive construction of history and the resultant canonization of certain dances, texts and points of view. The historical readings are presented in a way that encourages thoughtful analysis and allows the opportunity for critical engagement with the text. CONTENTS : Thinking abut 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 Nijinsky's Sacre / Millicent Hodson. Five premises for a culturally sensitive approach to dance / Deidre Sklar. An anthropologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance / Joann Kealiinohomoku. 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 Bourgignon. 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 Nieuwkerk. 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. ISBN 9780819564139.