Bodies of the Text
Bodies of the Text

Author: Ellen W. Goellner

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780813521275

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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.

The Body, the Dance and the Text
The Body, the Dance and the Text

Author: Brynn Wein Shiovitz

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-01-25

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1476634858

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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.

Dance as Text
Dance as Text

Author: Mark Franko

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0199794014

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Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early baroque. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. He reveals the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance in the early modern.

Dance Anatomy-2nd Edition
Dance Anatomy-2nd Edition

Author: Haas, Jacqui Greene

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1492545171

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Dance Anatomy is a visually stunning presentation of more than 100 of the most effective dance, movement, and performance exercises, each designed to promote correct alignment, improved placement, proper breathing, and prevention of common injuries.

Dance and the Lived Body
Dance and the Lived Body

Author: Sondra Horton Fraleigh

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 1996-05-15

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780822971702

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In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the lived body. She describes, with performance photographs, specific imagery in dance masterworks by Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber, Nina Weiner, and Garth Fagan.

Geographies of Dance
Geographies of Dance

Author: Adam M. Pine

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2013-12-24

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0739171852

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This volume provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between bodies, dance and space. Using ten case studies, it illustrates the symbolic power of dance that is crafted by choreographers and acted out by dancers. The book portrays a multitude of ways in which public and private spaces (stages, buildings, town squares as well as natural environments) are transformed and made meaningful by dance. Furthermore, it explores the meaning of dance as emotionally experienced by dancers, and examines how movement in certain spaces creates meaning without the use of words or symbols.

Meaning in Motion
Meaning in Motion

Author: Jane Desmond

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780822319429

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Reading Dancing
Reading Dancing

Author: Susan Leigh Foster

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780520063334

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Winner of the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize Recent approaches to dance composition, seen in the works of Merce Cunningham and the Judson Church performances of the early 1960s, suggest the possibility for a new theory of choreographic meaning. Borrowing from contemporary semiotics and post-structuralist criticism, Reading Dancing outlines four distinct models for representation in dance which are illustrated, first, through an analysis of the works of contemporary choreographers Deborah Hay, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, and then through reference to historical examples beginning with court ballets of the Renaissance. The comparison of these four approaches to representation affirms the unparalleled diversity of choreographic methods in American dance, and also suggests a critical perspective from which to reflect on dance making and viewing.

Body and Mind in Motion
Body and Mind in Motion

Author: Glenna Batson

Publisher: Intellect Books

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 178320236X

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Western contemporary dance and body-mind education have engaged in a pas de deux for more than four decades. The rich interchange of somatics and dance has altered both fields, but scholarship that substantiates these ideas through the findings of twentieth-century scientific advances has been missing. This book fills that gap and brings to light contemporary discoveries of neuroscience and somatic education as they relate to dance. Drawing from the burgeoning field of “embodiment”—itself an idea at the intersection of the sciences, humanities, arts, and technologies—Body and Mind in Motion highlights the relevance of somatic education within dance education, dance science, and body-mind studies.

Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology, 2E
Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology, 2E

Author: Clippinger, Karen

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2015-11-09

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1450469280

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Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology, Second Edition, retains its scientific perspective while offering greater accessibility to a wider audience. The streamlined approach makes the content more accessible in a single undergraduate course, and the text comes with a suite of online ancillaries.