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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.

Bodies of the Text

Author : Ellen W. Goellner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521275
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Bodies of the Text written by Ellen W. Goellner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual. Bodies of the Text is the first book-length study of the interconnections between the two arts and the body of writing about them. The essays, by scholar-critics of dance and literature, explore dances actual and fictional to offer powerful new insights into issues of gender, race, ethnicity, popular culture, feminist aesthetics, historical "embodiment," identity politics, and narrativity. The general introduction traces the genealogy of dance studies in the academy to suggest why critical and theoretical attention to dance--and dance's challenges to writing--is both compelling and overdue. A milestone in interdisciplinary studies, Bodies of the Text opens both its fields to new inquiry, new theoretical precision, and to new readers and writers.

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019979443X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body by : Mark Franko

Download or read book Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body written by Mark Franko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author Mark Franko analyzes court ballet librettos, contemporary performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in the literature of this period. Examining the formal choreographic apparatus that characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle, Franko postulates that the evolving aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the noble class, which devised and performed court ballets. He shows how the body emerged from verbal theater as a self-sufficient text whose autonomy had varied ideological connotations, most important among which was the expression of noble resistance to the increasingly absolutist monarchy. Frankos analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. Dance as Text thus provides a picture of the complex theoretical underpinnings of composite spectacle, the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance, and finally, the subversiveness of Molieres use of court ballet traditions.

The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory

Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137487771
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory written by Helen Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.

Geographies of Rhythm

Author : Dr Tim Edensor
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409488454
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Rhythm written by Dr Tim Edensor and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. Here, leading geographers advance and expand on Lefebvre's theories, examining how they intersect with current theoretical and political concerns within the social sciences. In terms of geography, rhythmanalysis highlights tensions between repetition and innovation, between the need for consistency and the need for disruption. These tensions reveal the ways in which social time is managed to ensure a measure of stability through the instantiation of temporal norms, whilst at the same time showing how this is often challenged. In looking at the rhythms of geographies, and drawing upon a wide range of geographical contexts, this book explores the ordering of different rhythms according to four main themes: rhythms of nature, rhythms of everyday life, rhythms of mobility, and the official and routine rhythms which superimpose themselves on the multiple rhythms of the body.

Text & Presentation, 2006

Author : Stratos E. Constantinidis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786455411
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Text & Presentation, 2006 written by Stratos E. Constantinidis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 30th annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Beckett, Brecht, Goethe, Tom Stoppard, dance performance, staged violence, the Comédìe Française, and Greek and Japanese drama. Reviews of selected books are also included.

History Of Ancient India (portraits Of A Nation), 1/e

Author : Kapur
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788120749108
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book History Of Ancient India (portraits Of A Nation), 1/e written by Kapur and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scripting Dance in Contemporary India

Author : Maratt Mythili Anoop
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149850552X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Scripting Dance in Contemporary India by : Maratt Mythili Anoop

Download or read book Scripting Dance in Contemporary India written by Maratt Mythili Anoop and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As stories of Indian dance’s renaissance span almost a full century, there has emerged a globally dispersed community of Indian dancers, scholars and audiences who are deeply committed to keeping these traditions alive and experimenting with traditional dance languages to grapple with contemporary themes and issues. Scripting Dance in Contemporary India is an edited volume that contributes to this field of Indian dance studies. The book engages with multiple dance forms of India and their representations. The contributions are eclectic, including writings by both scholars and performers who share their experiential knowledge. There are four sections in the book – section I titled, “Representations’ has three chapters that deal with textual representations and illustrations of dance and dancers, and the significance of those representations in the present. Section II titled, “Histories in Process” consists of two chapters that engage with the historiographies of dance forms and suggest that histories are narratives that are continually created. In the third section, “Negotiations”, the four chapters address the different ways in which dance is embedded in society, and the different ways in which the aesthetics of a form has to negotiate with social, economic and political imperatives. The final section, “Other Voices/ Other Bodies” brings voices which are outside the mainstream of dance as ‘serious’ art.

Further Steps 2

Author : Constance Kreemer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134729421
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Further Steps 2 written by Constance Kreemer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Further Steps 2 brings together New York’s foremost choreographers – among them MacArthur ‘Genius’ award winners Meredith Monk and Bill T. Jones – to discuss the past, present and future of dance in the US. In a series of exclusive and enlightening interviews, this diverse selection of artists discuss the changing roles of race, gender, politics, and the social environment on their work. Bringing her own experience of the New York dance scene to her study, Constance Kreemer traces the lives and works of the following choreographers: Lucinda Childs, Douglas Dunn, Molissa Fenley, Rennie Harris, Bill T. Jones, Kenneth King, Nancy Meehan, Meredith Monk, Rosalind Newman, Gus Solomons jr, Doug Varone, Dan Wagoner, Mel Wong and Jawole Zollar.

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames

Author : Eleftheria Ioannidou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199664110
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames by : Eleftheria Ioannidou

Download or read book Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames written by Eleftheria Ioannidou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation of Greek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings of Greek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of staged and written adaptations of Greek tragic texts in recent years, the idea still persists that tragedy is incompatible with postmodernism, with the long-standing debate over the demise of the genre in the modern era undergoing a recent resurgence with the claim that postmodernism precludes tragedy both as an aesthetic form and as a way of perceiving the world. This volume focuses on the adaptation of Greek tragedy between 1970 and 2005 and explores a wide range of adaptations from a variety of different countries: the plays under discussion are characterized by an extended intertextual engagement with their prototype texts - instead of simply adapting the Greek myth, they rewrite the classical text in ways akin to the renegotiation of authorship and textuality proffered by poststructuralist thought. Such adaptive strategies are not only integral to the wider problematics of interrogating the authority of the classical canon and the power structures embedded in its reception, but also have also given rise to the development of peculiar tragic modes and tropes towards the end of the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. In analysing these tropes and demonstrating the ways in which Greek tragic texts have been rethought and rewritten in the adaptions presented, this volume seeks on the one hand to show how tragedy continues to provide a means of articulating contemporary cultural and political preoccupations, while on the other it draws upon a cultural materialist methodology to resist fixed definitions of tragedy and to question established frames and representations.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body

Author : Dr. Youn Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190859628
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body written by Dr. Youn Kim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence of the phenomenological body is central to music in all of its varieties and contradictions. With the explosion of scholarly works on the body in virtually every field in the humanities, the social as well as the biomedical sciences, the question of how such a complex understanding of the body is related to music, with its own complexity, has been investigated within specific disciplinary perspectives. The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body brings together scholars from across these fields, providing a platform for the discussion of the multidimensional interfaces of music and the body. The book is organized into six sections, each discussing a topic that defines the field: the moving and performing body; the musical brain and psyche; embodied mind, embodied rhythm; the disabled and sexual body; music as medicine; and the multimodal body. Connecting a wide array of diverse perspectives and presenting a survey of research and practice, the Handbook provides an introduction into the rich world of music and the body.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199314217
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment written by Mark Franko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device, the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory, pedagogy, theory of history, reconstruction as a methodology, testimony and witnessing, theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature, and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.

Dance as Text

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
ISBN 13 : 0199794014
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Dance as Text written by Mark Franko and published by Oxford Studies in Dance Theory. This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, it brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in literature. It studies the formal choreographic apparatus that characterises late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle and how its changing aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the nobles who devised et performed court ballets.

The Place of Dance

Author : Andrea Olsen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574066
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Place of Dance written by Andrea Olsen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing is our nature, available to all as well as refined for the stage. Andrea Olsen is an internationally known choreographer and educator who combines the science of body with creative practice. This workbook integrates experiential anatomy with the process of moving and dancing, with a particular focus on the creative journey involved in choreographing, improvising, and performing for the stage. Each of the chapters, or “days,” introduces a particular theme and features a dance photograph, information on the topic, movement and writing investigations, personal anecdotes, and studio notes from professional artists and educators for further insight. The third in a trilogy of works about the body, including Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy and Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide, The Place of Dance will help each reader understand his/her dancing body through somatic work, create a dance, and have a full journal clarifying aesthetic views on his or her practice. It is well suited for anyone interested in engaging embodied intelligence and living more consciously.

Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750

Author : Jennifer Nevile
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253351537
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750 written by Jennifer Nevile and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging overview of dance from the Medieval era through the Baroque

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

Author : Jens Richard Giersdorf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135173486
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 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 2010-02-25 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 twentieth century, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz and ethnic dance.

Migrations of Gesture

Author : Carrie Noland
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816648646
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Migrations of Gesture written by Carrie Noland and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the Latin verb “gerere”-to carry, act, or do-“gesture” has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign production. Gestures migrate from body to body, from one medium to another, and between cultural contexts. Juxtaposing distinct approaches to gesture in order to explore the ways in which they at once shape and are influenced by culture, the contributors examine the works of writers Henri Michaux and Stphane Mallarm, photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Martin Arnold, along with cultural practices such as gang walking, ballet, and classical Indian dance. The authors move deftly between an organic, phenomenal appreciation of human expression and a historicist, semiotic understanding of how the “human” is itself created through gestural routines. Contributors: Mark Franko, U of California, Santa Cruz; Ketu H. Katrak, U of California, Irvine; Akira Mizuta Lippit, U of Southern California; Susan A. Phillips, Pitzer College; Deidre Sklar; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Blake Stimson, U of California, Davis. Carrie Noland is associate professor of French literature and critical theory at the University of California, Irvine. Sally Ann Ness is professor of anthropology at University of California, Riverside.