AVAILABLE FOR YOUR FALL COURSES!!! A Dance History Reader MOVING HISTORY / DANCING CULTURES Edited by Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright "Unparalleled in its diversity of material, approaches and ideas. Nowhere else can a dance educator find a selection of readings of this magnitude in any single format. An extremely important, urgently needed shift in the current accessibility of dance history scholarship." -Candace Feck, Department of Dance, Ohio State University "This reader will fill a widely recognized gap in the teaching material available to dance history instructors." -Tricia Henry Young, Department of Dance, Florida State University 544 pp. 55 illus. 8 x 10. Paper, 0-8195-6413-3. $24.95 Available July 1 To ORDER: Please contact your local bookstore or Wesleyan University Press, c/o University Press of New England, Order Department, 23 South Main Street, Hanover, NH 03755 Toll-Free: 1-800-421-1561 FAX: 603-643-1540 E-mail: University.Press@Dartmouth.edu Individuals must prepay and include postage: $5.00 for first book, $1.25 for each additional book. MOVING HISTORY DANCING CULTURES A Dance History Reader CONTENTS Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright, First Steps: Moving into the Study of Dance History Section 1 - Thinking About Dance History: Theory and Practices Deborah Jowitt, Writing Beneath the Surface Joan Acocella, Imagining Dance Millicent Hodson, Searching for Nijinsky's Sacre Deidre Sklar, Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance Joann Kealiinohomoku, An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance Ramsay Burt, The Trouble with the Male Dancer Ann Cooper Albright, Strategic Abilities: Negotiating the Disabled Body in Dance Sally Ann Ness, Dancing in the Field: Notes from Memory Section 2 - World Dance Traditions Erika Bourgignon, Trance and Ecstatic Dance Avanthi Meduri, Bharatha Natyam - What Are You? Lisa Doolittle & Heather Elton, Medicine of the Brave Shawna Helland, The Belly Dance: Ancient Ritual to Cabaret Performance Karin van Nieuwkerk, Changing Images and Shifting Identities: Female Performers in Egypt Kariamu Welsh Asante, Commonalities in African Dance: An Aesthetic Foundation Z. S. Strother, Invention and Re-invention in the Traditional Arts Barbara Browning, Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions Lee Kyong-hee, Epitome of Korean Folk Dance Judy Van Zile, The Many Faces of Korean Dance Mark Franko, Writing Dancing Catherine Turocy, Beyond La Danse Noble: Conventions in Choreography and Dance Performance at the Time of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie Lynn Garafola, The Travesty Dancer in Nineteenth- Century Ballet Susan Allene Manning & Melissa Benson, Interrupted Continuities: Modern Dance in Germany Section 3 - America Dancing Sharyn R. Udall, The Irresistible Other: Hopi Ritual Drama and Euro-American Audiences Marian Hannah Winter, Juba and American Minstrelsy Jane Desmond, Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's Radha of 1906 Julie Malnig, Two-Stepping to Glory Ann Daly, The Natural Body Deborah Jowitt, Form as the Image of Human Perfectibility and Natural Order Marcia B. Siegel, The Harsh and Splendid Heroines of Martha Graham Ellen Graff, The Dance is a Weapon Nancy Reynolds, In His Image: Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance Thomas DeFrantz, Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance Sally Banes, Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater Deborah Jowitt, Chance Heroes. Merce Cunningham Section 4 - Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull, Looking at Movement as Culture Peter Ryan, 10,000 Jams Later: Contact Improvisation in Canada 1974-95 Bonnie Sue Stein, Butoh: "Twenty Years Ago We Were Crazy, Dirty and Mad" Steve Paxton, Improvisation Is a Word for Something That Can't Keep a Name Kathleen Foreman, Dancing on the Endangered List: Aesthetics and Politics of Indigenous Dance in the Philippines Ananya Chatterjea, Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/ Political Signification Uttara Coorlawala, Ananya and Chandralekha - A Response Ann Cooper Albright, Embodying History: Epic Narrative and Cultural Identity in African-American Dance Susan Foster, Simply (?) the Doing of it, Like Two Arms Going Round and Round Richard Povall, A Little Technology Is a Dangerous Thing Lisa Marie Naugle, Technique/ Technology/ Technique Ann Dils, Absent/Presence
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