The Body The Dance And The Text

Author : Brynn Wein Shiovitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476671895

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The Body, the Dance and the Text by Brynn Wein Shiovitz Pdf

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.

Author : Brynn Wein Shiovitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476634852

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The Body, the Dance and the Text by Brynn Wein Shiovitz Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199794010

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Dance as Text by Mark Franko Pdf

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.

Author : Ellen W. Goellner,Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813521270

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Bodies of the Text by Ellen W. Goellner,Jacqueline Shea Murphy Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199794430

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

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.

Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137487773

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The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory by Helen Thomas Pdf

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.

Author : Adrienne Leitch,Cheryl Kaloger-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Dance
ISBN : 0958030200

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The Dancer's Body by Adrienne Leitch,Cheryl Kaloger-Brown Pdf

Author : Stratos E. Constantinidis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786455416

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Text & Presentation, 2006 by Stratos E. Constantinidis Pdf

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.

Author : Jane K. Cowan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400884377

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Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece by Jane K. Cowan Pdf

Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. Here Jane Cowan explores how the politics of gender is articulated through the body at these culturally central, yet until now ethnographically neglected, celebrations in a class-divided northern Greek town. Portraying the dance-event as both a highly structured and dynamic social arena, she approaches the human body not only as a sign to be deciphered but as a site of experience and an agent of practice. In describing the multiple ideologies of person, gender, and community that townspeople embody and explore as they dance, Cowan presents three different settings: the traditional wedding procession, the "Europeanized" formal evening dance of local civic associations, and the private party. She examines the practices of eating, drinking, talking, gifting, and dancing, and the verbal discourse through which celebrants make sense of each other's actions. Paying particular attention to points of tension and moments of misunderstanding, she analyzes in what ways these social situations pose different problems for men and women.

Author : Jane Desmond
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 082231942X

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Meaning in Motion by Jane Desmond Pdf

On dance and culture

Author : Jennifer Nevile
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253219855

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Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250–1750 by Jennifer Nevile Pdf

From the mid-13th to the mid-18th century the ability to dance was an important social skill for both men and women. Dance performances were an integral part of court ceremonies and festivals and, in the 17th and 18th centuries, of commercial theatrical productions. Whether at court or in the public theater danced spectacles were multimedia events that required close collaboration among artists, musicians, designers, engineers, and architects as well as choreographers. In order to fully understand these practices, it is necessary to move beyond a consideration of dance alone, and to examine it in its social context. This original collection brings together the work of 12 scholars from the disciplines of dance and music history. Their work presents a picture of dance in society from the late medieval period to the middle of the 18th century and demonstrates how dance practices during this period participated in the intellectual, artistic, and political cultures of their day.

Author : Urmimala Sarkar Munsi,Stephanie Burridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136703782

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Traversing Tradition by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi,Stephanie Burridge Pdf

Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and celebrates the emergence of contemporary dance practice in India. Incorporating a multidisciplinary approach, it includes contributions from scholars, writers and commentators as well as short essays and interviews with Indian artists and performers; the latter add personal perspectives and insights to the broad themes discussed. Young Indian dance artists are courageously charting out new trajectories in dance, diverging from the time-worn paths of tradition. The classical forms of Bharatnatyam, Kathak, Odissi and Manipuri, to name a few, are rich resources for choreographers exploring contemporary dance. This volume speaks about their struggles of working within and outside tradition as they grapple with national and international audience expectations as well as their own values and sense of identity. The artists represented here continue to question the uneasy relationship that exists between the insular world of dance and outside reality. Simultaneously, they are actively creating new dance languages that are both articulate in a performative context and demand examination by researchers and critics.

Author : Nanako Nakajima,Gabriele Brandstetter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315515328

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The Aging Body in Dance by Nanako Nakajima,Gabriele Brandstetter Pdf

What does it mean to be able to move? The Aging Body in Dance brings together leading scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds to investigate cultural ideas of movement and beauty, expressiveness and agility. Contributors focus on Euro-American and Japanese attitudes towards aging and performance, including studies of choreographers, dancers and directors from Yvonne Rainer, Martha Graham, Anna Halprin and Roemeo Castellucci to Kazuo Ohno and Kikuo Tomoeda. They draw a fascinating comparison between youth-oriented Western cultures and dance cultures like Japan’s, where aging performers are celebrated as part of the country’s living heritage. The first cross-cultural study of its kind, The Aging Body in Dance offers a vital resource for scholars and practitioners interested in global dance cultures and their differing responses to the world's aging population.

Author : Sondra Horton Fraleigh
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252042042

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Back to the Dance Itself by Sondra Horton Fraleigh Pdf

In Back to the Dance Itself, Sondra Fraleigh edits essays that illuminate how scholars apply a range of phenomenologies to explore questions of dance and the world; performing life and language; body and place; and self-knowing in performance. Some authors delve into theoretical perspectives, while others relate personal experiences and reflections that reveal fascinating insights arising from practice. Collectively, authors give particular consideration to the interactive lifeworld of making and doing that motivates performance. Their texts and photographs study body and the environing world through points of convergence, as correlates in elemental and constant interchange modeled vividly in dance. Selected essays on eco-phenomenology and feminism extend this view to the importance of connections with, and caring for, all life. Contributors: Karen Barbour, Christine Bellerose, Robert Bingham, Kara Bond, Hillel Braude, Sondra Fraleigh, Kimerer LaMothe, Joanna McNamara, Vida Midgelow, Ami Shulman, and Amanda Williamson.

Author : Doran George
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780197538760

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The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training by Doran George Pdf

From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance training in the 1960s, Somatics emerged at the end of the twentieth century as one of the most popular and widespread regimens used to educate dancers. It is now found in dance curricula worldwide, helping to shape the look and sensibilities of both dancers and choreographers and thereby influencing much of the dance we see onstage worldwide. One of the first books to examine Somatics in detail and to analyse how and what it teaches in the dance studio, The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training considers how dancers discover and assimilate new ways of moving and also larger cultural values associated with those movements. The book traces the history of Somatics, and it also details how Somatics developed in different locales, engaging with local politics and dance histories so as to develop a distinctive pedagogy that nonetheless shared fundamental concepts with other national and regional contexts. In so doing it shows how dance training can inculcate an embodied politics by guiding and shaping the experience of bodily sensation, constructing forms of reflexive evaluation of bodily action, and summoning bodies into relationship with one another. Throughout, the author focuses on the concept of the natural body and the importance of a natural way of moving as central to the claims that Somatics makes concerning its efficacy and legitimacy.