Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader
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...
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A comprehensive and multifaceted anthology of dance history — ideal for the classroom. A useful source for academic dance programs . . . Conceived as an alternative to the usual photocopied packet handed out in many university dance classes, this book presents a wide assortment of material in one volume. It also makes a much-needed contribution to dance scholarship.
List of IllustrationsFirst Steps: Moving into the Study of Dance HistoryPt. IThinking about Dance History: Theories and PracticesThe Pleasures of Studying Dance History2Beyond Description: Writing beneath the Surface7Imagining Dance12Searching for Nijinsky's Sacre17Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance30An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance33The Trouble with the Male Dancer ...44Strategic Abilities: Negotiating the Disabled Body in Dance56Dancing in the Field: Notes from Memory67Pt. IIWorld Dance TraditionsLooking at World Dance92Trance and Ecstatic Dance97Bharatha Natyam - What Are You?103Medicine of the Brave: A Look at the Changing Role of Dance in Native Culture from the Buffalo Days to the Modern Powwow114The Belly Dance: Ancient Ritual to Cabaret Performance128Changing Images and Shifting Identities: Female Performers in Egypt136Commonalties in African Dance: An Aesthetic Foundation144Invention and Reinvention in the Traditional Arts152Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions165Epitome of Korean Folk Dance174The Many Faces of Korean Dance178Writing Dancing191Beyond La Danse Noble: Conventions in Choreography and Dance Performance at the Time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie202The Travesty Dancer in Nineteenth-Century Ballet210Interrupted Continuities: Modern Dance in Germany218Pt. IIIAmerica DancingHistorical Moments: Rethinking the Past232The Irresistible Other: Hopi Ritual Drama and Euro-American Audiences238Juba and American Minstrelsy250Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906256Two-Stepping to Glory: Social Dance and the Rhetoric of Social Mobility271The Natural Body288Form as the Image of Human Perfectibility and Natural Order300The Harsh and Splendid Heroines of Martha Graham307The Dance Is a Weapon315In His Image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein323Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance332Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance342Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater350Chance Heroes362Pt. IVContemporary Dance: Global ContextsMoving Contexts370Butoh: "Twenty Years Ago Were Crazy, Dirty, and Mad"376Dancing on the Endangered List: Aesthetics and Politics of Indigenous Dance in the Philippines384Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification389Ananya and Chandralekha - A Response to "Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification"398Looking at Movement as Culture: Contact Improvisation to Disco40410,000 Jams Later: Contact Improvisation in Canada 1974-95414Improvisation Is a Word for Something That Can't Keep a Name421Simply(?) the Doing of It, Like Two Arms Going Round and Round427Embodying History: Epic Narrative and Cultural Identity in African American Dance439A Little Technology Is a Dangerous Thing455Technique/Technology/Technique459Absent/Presence462About the Contributors475Permissions481Index485
\ From the Publisher"A useful source for academic dance programs . . . Conceived as an alternative to the usual photocopied packet handed out in many university dance classes, this book presents a wide assortment of material in one volume. It also makes a much-needed contribution to dance scholarship." --Library Journal\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalAlbright (dance, Oberlin Coll.; Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance) and Dils (dance, Univ. of North Carolina) have compiled an eclectic selection of articles on the world of dance, covering historical, theoretical, and international perspectives. A useful source for academic dance programs, the book includes professors, choreographers, anthropologists, and others among its contributors. "The Belly Dance: Ancient Ritual to Cabaret Performance" and "The Harsh and Splendid Heroines of Martha Graham" are a few representative essays in a book that places a strong emphasis on dance traditions from around the world. Conceived as an alternative to the usual photocopied packet handed out in many university dance classes, this book presents a wide assortment of material in one volume. It also makes a much-needed contribution to dance scholarship. Recommended for academic libraries and specialized collections. Barbara Kundanis, Batavia P.L., IL Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.\ \
