Dancing across the page : narrative and embodied ways of knowing / Karen Nicole Barbour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbour, Karen Nicole.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing Across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism, and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and lived experience. Through accounts of contemporary dance making, improvisation and dance education, Karen Barbour explores a diversity of themes, including power, activism, and cultural, gendered and personal identity. An intimate yet rigorous investigation of creativity in dance, Dancing Across the Page emphasizes embodied knowledge and imaginat

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Photographs and Figures; Mihi; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Being: Introductions; Chapter 2: Becoming: Feminist Choreography and Dance Research; Chapter 3: Dancing Across the Page: Representing Research Through Narrative; Chapter 4: Dreaming Yourself Anew: Choreographic Strategies in Women's Solo Contemporary Dance; Chapter 5: Knowing Differently, Living Creatively: Embodied Ways of Knowing; Chapter 6: Standing Strong: Pedagogical Approaches to Affirming Identity; Chapter 7: Improvising: Dance and Everyday Life

Chapter 8: Performing Identity: Tattoos, Dreadlocks and Feminism in Everyday LifeChapter 9: Imaginings: Reaching for a Vision; References; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-16275-X

9786613162755

1-84150-501-3

OCLC:

714572246