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• Winner of Winner, 2021 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, American Society for Aesthetics.

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With clarity, lucidity, and richly informed insight, Pakes explores the identity and ontology of dance. Her focus on dance history, practice, and aesthetics discourse provides stunningly original and erudite exploration of what dance works are. Pakes weaves a complex tapestry drawing from an astonishing range of current and classical proposals. Future work on these important issues cannot help but be shaped by the fresh contributions in this splendid book. * Julie C. Van Camp, California State University, Long Beach * This wonderfully rich book is essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding the objects that engage us in dance practice, dance criticism, and dance appreciation. Pakes's exploration of central issues in dance ontology is informed by a deep knowledge of dance history and dance practice, and by an astute critical grasp of the relevant philosophical issues. Dance, as Pakes notes, has been marginal to debates in analytic ontology of art: this book shows why this must no longer be the case. * David Davies, McGill University *

Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. -- J. D. Harding, CHOICE This wonderfully rich book is essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding the objects that engage us in dance practice, dance criticism, and dance appreciation. Pakes's exploration of central issues in dance ontology is informed by a deep knowledge of dance history and dance practice, and by an astute critical grasp of the relevant philosophical issues. Dance, as Pakes notes, has been marginal to debates in analytic ontology of art: this book shows why this must no longer be the case. -- David Davies, McGill University

"""Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."" -- J. D. Harding, CHOICE ""This wonderfully rich book is essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding the objects that engage us in dance practice, dance criticism, and dance appreciation. Pakes's exploration of central issues in dance ontology is informed by a deep knowledge of dance history and dance practice, and by an astute critical grasp of the relevant philosophical issues. Dance, as Pakes notes, has been marginal to debates in analytic ontology of art: this book shows why this must no longer be the case."" -- David Davies, McGill University"

This wonderfully rich book is essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding the objects that engage us in dance practice, dance criticism, and dance appreciation. Pakes's exploration of central issues in dance ontology is informed by a deep knowledge of dance history and dance practice, and by an astute critical grasp of the relevant philosophical issues. Dance, as Pakes notes, has been marginal to debates in analytic ontology of art: this book shows why this must no longer be the case. -- David Davies, McGill University

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Anna Pakes is Reader in Dance Studies at University of Roehampton, where she specializes in philosophy of dance, especially analytic philosophical approaches and themes. She is a former dancer and choreographer, co-editor of the anthology Thinking through Dance, English translator of Frédéric Pouillaude's Unworking Choreography (OUP, 2017), and winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics (2018).

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