Overview

Focusing on politics, gender, and identities, a group of international dance scholars provide a broad overview of new methodological approaches – with specific case studies – and how they can be applied to the study of ballet and modern dance. With an introduction exploring the history of dance studies and the development of central themes and areas of concerns in the field, the book is then divided into three parts: politics explores 'Ausdruckstanz' – an expressive dance tradition first formulated in the 1920s by dancer Mary Wigman and carried forward in the work of Pina Bausch and others gender examines eighteenth century theatrical dance – a time when elaborate sets, costumes, and plots examined racial and sexual stereotypes identity is concerned with modern dance. Exploring contemporary analytical approaches to understanding performance traditions, Dance Discourses' pedagogical structure makes it ideal for courses in performing arts and humanities.

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Author:   Susanne Franco (University IUAV of Venice, Italy) ,  Marina Nordera (Nice University, France)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780415423090

ISBN 10:   0415423090
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   28 November 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction ""Susanne Franco and Marina Nordera ""Part 1: keyword: POLITICS topic: AUSDRUCKSTANZ 1.1 Dance and the political: States of exception"" Mark Franko"" 1.2 Fritz Bohme (1881-1952). Archeology of an ideologue ""Laure Guilbert"" 1.3 ""Ausdruckstanz"" across the Atlantic ""Susan Manning ""1.4 Ausdruckstanz on the left and the work of Jean Weidt ""Yvonne Hardt"" 1.5 ""Ausdruckstanz:"" traditions, translations, transmissions ""Susanne Fanco"" Part 2: keyword: FEMININE. MASCULINE topic: THEATRICAL DANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 2.1 Feminine. Masculine"" Linda Tomko "" 2.2 Dido's otherness: Choreographing race and gender in the ballet d'action ""Susan Leigh Foster"" 2.3 Danseuses and danseurs at the Opera de Paris (1700-25) according to the cast lists in the libretto--programs ""Nathalie Lecomte ""2.4 A balance lost: Staging the body and controlling social mobility during the French Revolution"" Inge Baxmann"" 2.5 Gender underway. Notes for histories yet to be written ""Marina Nordera"" Part 3: keyword: IDENTITIES topic: CONTEMPORARY DANCE 3.1 Dance, identity and identification in the postcolonial world"" Andree Grau"" 3.2 Resistant identities: Anderson and Ruckert ""Ramsay Burt"" 3.3 Donald Byrd: Re/making ""beauty"" Thomas deFrantz"" 3.4 Dispositif trouble: When what is said is not what is shown ""Helene Marquie"" 3.5 Identity, the contemporary, and the dancers"" Isabelle Ginot ""Name index"

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Susanne Franco teaches dance history at the University IUAV of Venice and has taught at the Universities of Paris III and Nice. She is the author of Martha Graham (2003), and the editor of Ausdruckstanz. Il corpo, la danza e la critica (2006) and of the series Dance For Word/Dance Forward, and of its first volume Frédéric Flamand (2004). Marina Nordera is professor and chair of Dance Department at Nice University (France). She has taught and performed early dance. Former president of the Italian Association for the Dance Research, she published essays on dance in early modern period. She is currently working on a book on dance and gender in Early Modern Italy.

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