Engaging bodies : the politics and poetics of corporeality / Ann Cooper Albright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albright, Ann Cooper.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance criticism.

Dance--History.

Dance.

Dance--Study and teaching.

Dance--Social aspects.

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Critical and performative writings from a well-known dance scholar

Contents:

Cover; Engaging Bodies; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Situated Dancing; I PERFORMANCE WRITINGS; 1 Pooh Kaye and Eccentric Motions; 2 Johanna Boyce; 3 Improvisations by Simone Forti and Pooh Kaye; 4 Song of Lawino; 5 Joseph Holmes, Sizzle and Heat; 6 Performing across Identity; 7 In Dialogue with Firebird; 8 Dancing Bodies and the Stories They Tell; 9 Embodying History: The New Epic Dance; 10 Desire and Control: Performing Bodies in the Age of AIDS; II FEMINIST THEORIES; 11 Mining the Dancefield: Spectacle, Moving Subjects, and Feminist Theory

12 Writing the Moving Body: Nancy Stark Smith and the Hieroglyphs13 Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in Dance; 14 Femininity with a Vengeance: Strategies of Veiling and Unveiling in Loïe Fuller's Performances of Salomé; III DANCING HISTORIES; 15 The Long Afternoon of a Faun: Reconstructions and Discourses of Desire; 16 Embodying History: Epic Narrative and Cultural Identity in African-American Dance; 17 Matters of Tact: Writing History from the Inside Out; 18 The Tanagra Effect: Wrapping the Modern Body in the Folds of Ancient Greece; IV CONTACT IMPROVISATION

19 A Particular History: Contact Improvisation at Oberlin College20 Open Bodies: (X)changes of Identity in Capoeira and Contact Improvisation; 21 Present Tense: Contact Improvisation at Twenty-five; 22 Feeling In and Out: Contact Improvisation and the Politics of Empathy; V PEDAGOGY; 23 Dancing across Difference: Experience and Identity in the Classroom; 24 Channeling the Other: An Embodied Approach to Teaching across Cultures; 25 Training Bodies to Matter; VI OCCASIONAL PIECES; 26 The Mesh in the Mess; 27 Through Yours to Mine and Back Again: Reflections on Bodies in Motion

28 Physical Mindfulness29 Researching Bodies: The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality; 30 Strategic Abilities: Negotiating the Disabled Body in Dance; 31 Dancing in and out of Africa; 32 Rates of Exchange; 33 Moving Contexts: Dance and Difference in the Twenty-first Century; 34 Three Beginnings and a Manifesto; 35 Improvisation as Radical Politics; 36 Space and Subjectivity; 37 Strategic Practices; 38 Resurrecting the Future: Body/Image/Technology; 39 Falling; 40 The Tensions of Technē: On Heidegger and Screendance; 41 Falling; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780819574121

0819574120

OCLC:

864551263

Publisher Number:

heb40163 hdl