How to make dances in an epidemic : tracking choreography in the age of AIDS / David Gere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gere, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in dance.

Homosexuality and dance--United States.

Homosexuality and dance.

Dance--Social aspects--United States.

Dance.

Dance criticism--United States.

Dance criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David Gere, who came of age as a dance critic at the height of the AIDS epidemic, offers the first book to examine in depth the interplay of AIDS and choreography in the United States, specifically in relation to gay men. The time he writes about is one of extremes. A life-threatening medical syndrome is spreading, its transmission linked to sex. Blame is settling on gay men. What is possible in such a highly charged moment, when art and politics coincide? Gere expands the definition of choreography to analyze not only theatrical dances but also the protests conceived by ACT-UP and the NAMES Project AIDS quilt. These exist on a continuum in which dance, protest, and wrenching emotional expression have become essentially indistinguishable. Gere offers a portrait of gay male choreographers struggling to cope with AIDS and its meanings.

Contents:

Introduction

Blood and sweat

Melancholia and fetishes

Monuments and insurgencies

Corpses and ghosts

Transcendence and eroticism

Epilogue.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-332) and index.

ISBN:

9786612269523

9781282269521

1282269526

9780299200831

0299200833

OCLC:

236346361