Dance on its own terms : histories and methodologies / edited by Melanie Bales and Karen Eliot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bales, Melanie.

Eliot, Karen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--History.

Dance.

Dance--Methodology.

Dance--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Dance on its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies anthologizes a wide range of subjects examined from dance-centered methodologies: modes of research that are emergent, based in relevant systems of movement analysis, use primary sources, and rely on critical, informed observation of movement. The anthology fills a gap in current scholarship by emphasizing dance history and core disciplinary knowledge rather than theories imported from disciplines outside dance.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: IN THE MOMENT OF RE-CREATION AND PERFORMANCE

Introduction to Part One

1. Dancing the Canon in Wartime: Sergeyev, de Valois, and Inglesby and the Classics of British Ballet

2. Reimagining Le Boeuf sur le Toit

3. Reframing the Recent Past: Issues of Reconstruction in Israeli Contemporary Dance

4. The Body Censored: Dance, Morality, and the Production Code During the Golden Age of the Film Musical

5. "Single Ladies" Is Gay: Queer Performances and Mediated Masculinities on YouTube

PART TWO: WITHIN THE BODY AND MIND OF THE DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER

Introduction to Part Two

6. La Cosmografia del Minor Mondo: Recovering Dance Theory to Create Today's Baroque Practice

7. Touchstones of Tradition and Innovation: Pas de Deux by Petipa, Balanchine and Forsythe

8. Pavlova and Her Daughters: Genealogies of Contingent Autonomy

9. Joined-up Fragments in A Wedding Bouquet: Ashton, Berners and Stein

10. Kaddish at the Wall: Th e Long Life of Anna Sokolow's "Prayer for the Dead"

11. Developing the American Ballet Dancer: Th e Pedagogical Lineage of Rochelle Zide-Booth

PART THREE: IN THE SHAPE OF WRITTEN RECORDS

Introduction to Part Three

12. Recording the Imperial Ballet: Anatomy and Ballet in Stepanov's Notation

13. Musical Expression in the Bournonville-Løvenskjold La Sylphide Variation

14. Archives of Embodiment: Visual Culture and the Practice of Score Reading

15. Reading Music, Gesture, and Narrative in Mark Morris' Dido and Aeneas

16. What's in a Dance? The Complexity of Information in Writings about Dance

Contributor Biographies

Index

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-993999-3

OCLC:

922972645