The body, the dance and the text : essays on performance and the margins of history / edited by Brynn Wein Shiovitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shiovitz, Brynn Wein, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Sociological aspects.

Dance.

Human body--Symbolic aspects.

Human body.

Dance and race.

Minorities in art.

Physical Description:

viii, 268 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2019.

Summary:

"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 their varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices, with a focus on movement as a meaning-making process--including the choreographic act of writing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : writing the body, staging the other / Brynn W. Shiovitz

Mouth over matter : writing early tap dance in the margins of the black body / Brynn W. Shiovitz

Spain in the basement : dancing race and nation at the Paris Exposition, 1900 / Kiko Mora and K. Meira Goldberg

White dreadlocks : black aesthetics in the work of Louise Lecavalier and la la la human steps / MJ Thompson

Flowers of menace : Stephen Petronio's Rites of spring / Constance Valis Hill

Othering the religious right : ameritude, whiteness and the USA Freedom Kids / Michelle T. Summers

Escape routes and roots : rewriting the narrative of the vulgar body / A'Keitha Carey

Lo que queda/that which remains : dancing bodies, historical erasure and cultural transmission / Michelle Heffner Hayers

Screaming soundscapes : the sounds of Puerto Rican contemporary performance in the work of Teresa Hernandez and Ivette Roman / Lydia Platón Lázaro

Always already : the Jewish body as victim and victimizer" / Rebecca K. Pappas

Israel Galvan's aesthetic anarchism : an ethics instantiated in motion / Ninotchka D. Bennahum

Brown and black : performing transmission in Trisha Brown's Locus and Hosoe Eikoh and Hijikata Tatsumi's Kamaitachi / Michael Sakamoto and Christopher Rasheem McMillan

The bustle, the body and stillness : re-centering modernities through the Broadway musical / Gwyneth Shanks

Gradations of presence : armida in nineteenth-century Italian dance librettos / Melissa Melpignano

Choreogrammatics : about the cover of this book / Linda Carreiro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Body, the dance and the text.

ISBN:

9781476671895

1476671893

OCLC:

1040232939