Bodies of the Text

Bodies of the Text
Title Bodies of the Text PDF eBook
Author Ellen W. Goellner
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 288
Release 1995
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780813521275

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Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual. Bodies of the Text is the first book-length study of the interconnections between the two arts and the body of writing about them. The essays, by scholar-critics of dance and literature, explore dances actual and fictional to offer powerful new insights into issues of gender, race, ethnicity, popular culture, feminist aesthetics, historical "embodiment," identity politics, and narrativity. The general introduction traces the genealogy of dance studies in the academy to suggest why critical and theoretical attention to dance--and dance's challenges to writing--is both compelling and overdue. A milestone in interdisciplinary studies, Bodies of the Text opens both its fields to new inquiry, new theoretical precision, and to new readers and writers.

The Body, the Dance and the Text

The Body, the Dance and the Text
Title The Body, the Dance and the Text PDF eBook
Author Brynn Wein Shiovitz
Publisher McFarland
Pages 276
Release 2019-01-25
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1476634858

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This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.

Dance as Text

Dance as Text
Title Dance as Text PDF eBook
Author Mark Franko
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 272
Release 2015
Genre History
ISBN 0199794014

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Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early baroque. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. He reveals the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance in the early modern.

Dance Anatomy-2nd Edition

Dance Anatomy-2nd Edition
Title Dance Anatomy-2nd Edition PDF eBook
Author Haas, Jacqui Greene
Publisher Human Kinetics
Pages 272
Release 2018
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1492545171

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Dance Anatomy is a visually stunning presentation of more than 100 of the most effective dance, movement, and performance exercises, each designed to promote correct alignment, improved placement, proper breathing, and prevention of common injuries.

Dance and the Lived Body

Dance and the Lived Body
Title Dance and the Lived Body PDF eBook
Author Sondra Horton Fraleigh
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Pre
Pages 330
Release 1996-05-15
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780822971702

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In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the lived body. She describes, with performance photographs, specific imagery in dance masterworks by Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber, Nina Weiner, and Garth Fagan.

Reading Dancing

Reading Dancing
Title Reading Dancing PDF eBook
Author Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 342
Release 1986
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780520063334

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Winner of the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize Recent approaches to dance composition, seen in the works of Merce Cunningham and the Judson Church performances of the early 1960s, suggest the possibility for a new theory of choreographic meaning. Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Reading Dancing outlines four distinct models for representation in dance which are illustrated, first, through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers Deborah Hay, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, and then through reference to historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance. The comparison of these four approaches to representation affirms the unparalleled diversity of choreographic methods in American dance, and also suggests a critical perspective from which to reflect on dance making and viewing.

Meaning in Motion

Meaning in Motion
Title Meaning in Motion PDF eBook
Author Jane Desmond
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 412
Release 1997
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780822319429

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On dance and culture