Dancing on the fault lines of history : selected essays / Susan Manning.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Manning, Susan, author.

Series:

Studies in dance (Dance Studies Association)

Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern dance--History.

Modern dance.

Dance--Anthropological aspects.

Dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume : illustrations)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2025.

Summary:

Dancing on the Fault Lines of History collects essential essays by Susan Manning, one of the founders of critical dance studies, recounting her career writing and rewriting the history of modern dance. Three sets of keywords--gender and sexuality, whiteness and Blackness, nationality and globalization--illuminate modern dance histories from multiple angles, coming together in varied combinations, shifting positions from foreground to background. Among the many artists discussed are Isadora Duncan, Vaslav Nijinsky, Ted Shawn, Helen Tamiris, Katherine Dunham, José Limón, Pina Bausch, Reggie Wilson, and Nelisiwe Xaba. Calling for a comparative and transnational historiography, Manning ends with an extended case study of Mary Wigman's multidimensional exchange with artists from Indonesia, India, China, Korea, and Japan. Like the artists at the center of her research, Manning's writing dances on the fault lines of history. Her introduction and annotations to the essays reflect on how and why these keywords became central to her research, revealing the autobiographical resonances of her scholarship as she confronts the cultural politics of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Contents:

Writing and rewriting modern dance history

Keywords : gender and sexuality. The female dancer and the male gaze ; Looking from a different place ; Choreographing the classics, performing sexual dissidence ; Archives in collision : excurses on method

Keywords : whiteness and blackness. Black voices, white bodies : Tamiris's How Long, Bretheren? ; Watching Dunham's dances, 1937-1945 ; Reggie Wilson and the making of Moses(es) ; Cross-viewing in Berlin and Chicago : Nelisiwe Xaba's Fremde Tänze

Keywords : nationality and globalization. An American perspective on Tanztheater ; Ausdruckstanz across the Atlantic ; Nation and world in modern dance ; Mary Wigman and Asia : between cultural appropriation and transnational encounter.

Notes:

Title from eBook information screen..

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472904846

0472904841

OCLC:

1484865779

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access