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How to Make Dances in an Epidemic

Author : David Gere
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299200833
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book How to Make Dances in an Epidemic written by David Gere and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-09-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

How to Make Dances in an Epidemic

Author : David Homer Gere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book How to Make Dances in an Epidemic written by David Homer Gere and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Body, the Dance and the Text

Author : Brynn Wein Shiovitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476671893
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Body, the Dance and the Text written by Brynn Wein Shiovitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.

How to Make Music in an Epidemic

Author : Matthew Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040043550
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book How to Make Music in an Epidemic written by Matthew Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines responses to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Anglophone popular musicians and music video during the AIDS crisis (1981–1996). Through close reading of song lyrics, musical texts, and music videos, this book demonstrates how music played an integral part in the artistic-activist response to the AIDS epidemic, demonstrating music as a way to raise money for HIV/AIDS services, to articulate affective responses to the epidemic, to disseminate public health messages, to talk back to power, and to bear witness to the losses of AIDS. Drawing methodologies from musicology, queer theory, critical race studies, public health, and critical theory, the book will be of interest to a wide readership, including artists, activists, musicians, historians, and other scholars across the humanities as well as to people who lived through the AIDS crisis.

Queer Dance

Author : Clare Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190646772
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Queer Dance written by Clare Croft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures through something other than heterosexuality and reproduction? How does challenging gender binaries always mean thinking about race, thinking about the postcolonial, about ableism? What are the arbitrary rules structuring dance in all its arenas, whether concert and social or commercial and competition, and how do we see those invisible structures and work to disrupt them? Queer Dance brings together artists and scholars in a multi-platformed project-book, accompanying website, and live performance series to ask, "How does dancing queerly progressively challenge us?" The artists and scholars whose writing appears in the book and whose performances and filmed interviews appear online stage a range of genders and sexualities that challenge and destabilize social norms. Engaging with dance making, dance scholarship, queer studies, and other fields, Queer Dance asks how identities, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices might consider what queer work the body does and can do. There is great power in claiming queerness in the press of bodies touching or in the exceeding of the body best measured in sweat and exhaustion. How does queerness exist in the realm of affect and touch, and what then might we explore about queerness through these pleasurable and complex bodily ways of knowing?

How To Do Things with Dance

Author : Rebekah J. Kowal
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819571076
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book How To Do Things with Dance written by Rebekah J. Kowal and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the CORD Outstanding Publication Award (2012) In postwar America, any assertion of difference from the mainstream anticommunist culture carried professional and personal risks. For this reason, modern dance artists left much of what they thought unsaid. Instead they expressed themselves in movement. How To Do Things with Dance positions modern dance as a vital critical discourse, and suggests that dances of the late 1940s and the 1950s can be seen as compelling agents of social change. Concentrating on choreographers whose artistic work conceived dance in terms of action, Rebekah J. Kowal shows how specific choreographic projects demonstrated increasing awareness of the stage as a penetrable space, one on which socially suspect or marginalized modes of being could be performed with relative impunity and exerted in the real world. Artists covered include Martha Graham, José Limón, Anna Sokolow, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Donald McKayle, Talley Beatty, and Anna Halprin. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.

Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice

Author : Naomi Jackson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810862182
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice written by Naomi Jackson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays, spanning more than 15 countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation and exploitation of dancers and dance activity by government and authoritative groups, including abusive treatment of dancers within the dance profession; choreography involving human rights as a central theme; the engagement of dance as a means of healing victims of human rights abuses; and national and local social/political movements in which dance plays a powerful role in helping people fight oppression. These groundbreaking papers_both detailed scholarship and riveting personal accounts_encompass a broad spectrum of issues, from slavery and the Holocaust to the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; from First Amendment cases and the AIDS epidemic to discrimination resulting from age, gender, race, and disability. A range of academics, choreographers, dancers, and dance/movement therapists draw connections between refugee camp, courtroom, theater, rehearsal studio, and university classroom.

Contemporary Dance in South Africa

Author : Sarahleigh Castelyn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527589250
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Dance in South Africa written by Sarahleigh Castelyn and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores when and how, and to what effect, the body in South African contemporary dance protests, subverts, or represents a site of the struggle against oppressive forces of power. It considers how the dancing body is choreographed, what meanings lie behind the movements it makes in space, the possible effect of these movements, how and why it is costumed, and its relationship to its setting and space. It examines a selection of contemporary South African dance works, including Flatfoot Dance Company’s Transmission: Mother to Child (2005), Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre’s Home (2003), Musa Hlatshwayo’s Umthombi (2004), Mlu Zondi’s Silhouette (2006), and Nelisiwe Xaba’s They Look at Me and That Is All They Think (2006). Using both critical study of these works and the author’s own practice research, the book develops an understanding of the body in contemporary dance and its political and social meanings both in the chosen performance and within the broader context of South African society from 2003-2007. This provides a snapshot of the practice and concerns of contemporary dance in just over a decade from the first democratic national elections in 1994. It is through the study of these dance works that this moment in South African history is captured. Contemporary dance in South Africa tells the story of South Africa; its past, present, and possible future, and is therefore an enticing and evocative historical period to research a dance practice.

Dance and Politics

Author : Alexandra Kolb
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039118489
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Dance and Politics written by Alexandra Kolb and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first anthology to explore the fertile intersection of dance and political studies. It offers new perspectives on the connections of dance to governmental, state and party politics, war, nationalism, activism, terrorism, human rights, political ideologies and cultural policy. This cutting-edge book features previously unpublished work by leading scholars of dance, theatre, politics, and management, alongside renowned contemporary choreographers, who propose innovative ways of looking at twentieth- and twenty-first-century dance. Topics covered range across the political spectrum: from dance tendencies under fascism to the use of choreography for revolutionary socialist ends; from the capacity of dance to reflect the modern market economy to its function in campaigns for peace and justice. The book also contains a comprehensive introduction to the relations between dance and politics.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater

Author : Nadine George-Graves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190273275
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater written by Nadine George-Graves and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important stakes, these essays focus on the politics and poetics of the moving body in performance both on and off stage. Contemporary stage performances have sparked global interest in new experiments between dance and theater, and this volume situates this interest in its historical context by extensively investigating other such moments: from pagan mimes of late antiquity to early modern archives to Bolshevik Russia to post-Sandinista Nicaragua to Chinese opera on the international stage, to contemporary flash mobs and television dance contests. Ideologically, the essays investigate critical race theory, affect theory, cognitive science, historiography, dance dramaturgy, spatiality, gender, somatics, ritual, and biopolitics among other modes of inquiry. In terms of aesthetics, they examine many genres such as musical theater, contemporary dance, improvisation, experimental theater, television, African total theater, modern dance, new Indian dance theater aesthetics, philanthroproductions, Butoh, carnival, equestrian performance, tanztheater, Korean Talchum, Nazi Movement Choirs, Lindy Hop, Bomba, Caroline Masques, political demonstrations, and Hip Hop. The volume includes innovative essays from both young and seasoned scholars and scholar/practitioners who are working at the cutting edges of their fields. The handbook brings together essays that offer new insight into well-studied areas, challenge current knowledge, attend to neglected practices or moments in time, and that identify emergent themes. The overall result is a better understanding of the roles of dance and theater in the performative production of meaning.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies

Author : Sherril Dodds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135002449X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies written by Sherril Dodds and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies brings together leading international dance scholars in this single collection to provide a vivid picture of the state of contemporary dance research. The book commences with an introduction that privileges dancing as both a site of knowledge formation and a methodological approach, followed by a provocative overview of the methods and problems that dance studies currently faces as an established disciplinary field. The volume contains eleven core chapters that each map out a specific area of inquiry: Dance Pedagogy, Practice-As-Research, Dance and Politics, Dance and Identity, Dance Science, Screendance, Dance Ethnography, Popular Dance, Dance History, Dance and Philosophy, and Digital Dance. Although these sub-disciplinary domains do not fully capture the dynamic ways in which dance scholars work across multiple positions and perspectives, they reflect the major interests and innovations around which dance studies has organized its teaching and research. Therefore each author speaks to the labels, methods, issues and histories of each given category, while also exemplifying this scholarship in action. The dances under investigation range from experimental conceptual concert dance through to underground street dance practices, and the geographic reach encompasses dance-making from Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean and Asia. The book ends with a chapter that looks ahead to new directions in dance scholarship, in addition to an annotated bibliography and list of key concepts. The volume is an essential guide for students and scholars interested in the creative and critical approaches that dance studies can offer.

Queer Times, Queer Becomings

Author : E. L. McCallum
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438437749
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Queer Times, Queer Becomings written by E. L. McCallum and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If queer theorists have agreed on anything, it is that for queer thought to have any specificity at all, it must be characterized by becoming, the constant breaking of habits. Queer Times, Queer Becomings explores queer articulations of time and becoming in literature, philosophy, film, and performance. Whether in the contexts of psychoanalysis, the nineteenth-century discourses of evolution and racial sciences, or the daily rhythms of contemporary, familially oriented communities, queerness has always been marked by a peculiar untimeliness, by a lack of proper orientation in terms of time as much as social norms. Yet it is the skewed relation to the temporal norm that also gives queerness its singular hope. This is demonstrated by the essays collected here as they consider the ways in which queer theory has acknowledged, resisted, appropriated, or refused divergent models of temporality.

The Male Dancer

Author : Ramsay Burt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135922551
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Male Dancer written by Ramsay Burt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging and lively book, Burt examines the representation of masculinity in twentieth century dance. The Male Dancer has proven to be essential reading for anyone interested in dance and the cultural construction of gender.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

Author : Sherril Dodds
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0190639083
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition written by Sherril Dodds and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, and danced meanings. In formalized competitions, dancers are judged according to industry standards to accumulate social capital and financial gain. Within the capitalist economy, dancing bodies compete to win positions in prestigious companies, while choreographers hustle to secure funding and attract audiences. On the social dance floor, dancers participate in dance-offs that often include unspoken, but nevertheless complex, rules of bodily engagement. And the media attraction to the drama and spectacle of competition regularly plays out in reality television shows, film documentaries, and Hollywood cinema. Drawing upon a diverse collection of dances across history and geography, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing

Author : Vicky Karkou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190655119
Total Pages : 1009 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing written by Vicky Karkou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the body, movement, and dance in a central place with renewed significance for wellbeing. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing examines dance and related movement practices from the perspectives of neuroscience and health, community and education, and psychology and sociology to contribute towards an understanding of wellbeing, offer new insights into existing practices, and create a space where sufficient exchange is enabled. The handbook's research components include quantitative, qualitative, and arts-based research, covering diverse discourses, methodologies, and perspectives that add to the development of a complete picture of the topic. Throughout the handbook's wide-ranging chapters, the objective observations, felt experiences, and artistic explorations of practitioners interact with and are printed alongside academic chapters to establish an egalitarian and impactful exchange of ideas.

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

Author : Jens Richard Giersdorf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351613847
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Dance Studies Reader written by Jens Richard Giersdorf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dance Studies Reader has been expanded and updated, giving readers access to thirty-seven essential texts that address the social, political, cultural, and economic impact of globalization on embodiment and choreography. These interdisciplinary essays in dance scholarship consider a broad range of dance forms in relation to historical, ethnographic, and interdisciplinary research methods including cultural studies, reconstruction, media studies, and popular culture. This new third edition expands both its geographic and cultural focus to include recent research on dance from Southeast Asia, the People’s Republic of China, indigenous dance, and new sections on market forces and mediatization. Sections cover: Methods and approaches Practice and performance Dance as embodied ideology Dance on the market and in the media Formations of the field. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader includes essays on concert dance (ballet, modern and postmodern dance, tap, kathak, and classical khmer dance), popular dance (salsa and hip-hop), site-specific performance, digital choreography, and lecture-performances. It is a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding dance from a global and contemporary perspective.

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

Author : Alexandra Carter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415485983
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Dance Studies Reader written by Alexandra Carter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the mid to late 20th century, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz and ethnic dance.