Dance History Reader

From: Ann Dils (ahdils@uncg.edu)
Date: 03/15/01


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

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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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