The routledge dance studies reader

1. Roots/routes Of Dance Studies / Janet O’shea — Part I. 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’s Puremovement And Shakespeare / Anna B. Scott — Part Ii. 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 Iii. Ways Of Looking — 14. Dance And Gender: Formalism And Semiotics Reconsidered / Stephanie Jordan And 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 J. 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 Mueller — Part Iv. Locating Dance In History And Society — 20. In Pursuit Of The Sylph: Ballet In The Romantic Period / Deobrah 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 E. 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 V. Debating The Discipline — 27. Choreographing History / Susan Leigh Foster — 28. Differentiating Phenomenology And Dance / Philipa Rothfield — 29. Dance Studies In The International Academy: Genealogy Of A Disciplinary Formation / Jens Richard Giersdorf — 30. Shifting Perspectives On Dance Ethnography / Theresa Jill Buckland — 31. Slamdancing With The Boundaries Of Theory And Practice: The Legitimisation Of Popular Dance / Sherril Dodds — 32. What Is Art? / Betty Redfern. Edited By Alexandra Carter And Janet O’shea. Cover Title On Cloth Binding Only. Includes Bibliographical References ([364]-389) And Index.