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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

Author : Dr. Sherril Dodds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190639099

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition by Dr. Sherril Dodds Pdf

In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, and danced meanings. In formalized competitions, dancers are judged according to industry standards to accumulate social capital and financial gain. Within the capitalist economy, dancing bodies compete to win positions in prestigious companies, while choreographers hustle to secure funding and attract audiences. On the social dance floor, dancers participate in dance-offs that often include unspoken, but nevertheless complex, rules of bodily engagement. And the media attraction to the drama and spectacle of competition regularly plays out in reality television shows, film documentaries, and Hollywood cinema. Drawing upon a diverse collection of dances across history and geography, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen

Author : Melissa Blanco Borelli
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199897827

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen by Melissa Blanco Borelli Pdf

This text offers new ways of understanding dance on the popular screen in new scholarly arguments drawn from dance studies, performance studies, and film and media studies. Through these arguments, it demonstrates how this dance in popular film, television, and online videos can be read and considered through the different bodies and choreographies being shown.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199314201

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment by Mark Franko Pdf

Starting from differences between reenactment and the more established practice of historical reconstruction, leading practitioners and theorists ask how the notion of preservation and representation associated with reconstruction is transformed by reenactment into historical experience and affective relation to the past in the present. In other terms: How does dance convey historical meaning through sensuous form? Danced reenactment poses the problem of history and historicity in relation to the troubled temporality inherent to dance itself. Ephemerality as the central trope of dance is hence displaced in favor of dance as a reiterative practice that confounds categories of chronological time and opens up a theoretical space of history that is often invisibilized by ideologies of immediacy traditionally attributed to dancing.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics

Author : Rebekah J. Kowal,Gerald Siegmund,Randy Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199928187

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics by Rebekah J. Kowal,Gerald Siegmund,Randy Martin Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics presents cutting edge research investigating not only how dance achieves its politics, but also how notions of the political are themselves expanded when viewed from the perspective of dance.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity

Author : Anthony Shay,Barbara Sellers-Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190493936

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity by Anthony Shay,Barbara Sellers-Young Pdf

Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and at a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are 'not right' for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when 19th century Christian missionaries banned the performance of particular native dance traditions throughout much of Polynesia, and when the Spanish conquistadors and church officials banned sacred Aztec dance rituals. More recently, dance performances became a locus of ethnic disunity in the former Yugoslavia as the Serbs of Bosnia attended dance concerts but only applauded for the Serbian dances, presaging the violent disintegration of that failed state. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity brings together scholars from across the globe in an investigation of what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented by dance as an ethnicity. Newly-commissioned for the volume, the chapters of the book place a reflective lens on dance and its context to examine the role of dance as performed embodiment of the historical moments and associated lived identities. In bringing modern dance and ballet into the conversation alongside forms more often considered ethnic, the chapters ask the reader to contemplate previous categories of folk, ethnic, classical, and modern. From this standpoint, the book considers how dance maintains, challenges, resists or in some cases evolves new forms of identity based on prior categories. Ultimately, the goal of the book is to acknowledge the depth of research that has been undertaken and to promote continued research and conceptualization of dance and its role in the creation of ethnicity. Dance and ethnicity is an increasingly active area of scholarly inquiry in dance studies and ethnomusicology alike and the need is great for serious scholarship to shape the contours of these debates. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity provides an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research from leading experts which will set the tone for future scholarly conversation.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater

Author : Nadine George-Graves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190273279

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater by Nadine George-Graves Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important stakes, these essays focus on the politics and poetics of the moving body in performance both on and off stage. Contemporary stage performances have sparked global interest in new experiments between dance and theater, and this volume situates this interest in its historical context by extensively investigating other such moments: from pagan mimes of late antiquity to early modern archives to Bolshevik Russia to post-Sandinista Nicaragua to Chinese opera on the international stage, to contemporary flash mobs and television dance contests. Ideologically, the essays investigate critical race theory, affect theory, cognitive science, historiography, dance dramaturgy, spatiality, gender, somatics, ritual, and biopolitics among other modes of inquiry. In terms of aesthetics, they examine many genres such as musical theater, contemporary dance, improvisation, experimental theater, television, African total theater, modern dance, new Indian dance theater aesthetics, philanthroproductions, Butoh, carnival, equestrian performance, tanztheater, Korean Talchum, Nazi Movement Choirs, Lindy Hop, Bomba, Caroline Masques, political demonstrations, and Hip Hop. The volume includes innovative essays from both young and seasoned scholars and scholar/practitioners who are working at the cutting edges of their fields. The handbook brings together essays that offer new insight into well-studied areas, challenge current knowledge, attend to neglected practices or moments in time, and that identify emergent themes. The overall result is a better understanding of the roles of dance and theater in the performative production of meaning.

The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition

Author : Maryanne Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199376377

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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition by Maryanne Fisher Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition is one of the first scholarly volumes to focus specifically on competition and the competitive forces between women. Chapters provide readers with a definitive view of the current state of research, and collectively address the adaptive and socio-cultural foundations of women's competitive behavior, motivations, and cognitions.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater

Author : Nadine George-Graves
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199917495

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater by Nadine George-Graves Pdf

This handbook brings together genres, aesthetics, cultural practices and historical movements that provide insight into humanist concerns at the crossroads of dance and theatre, broadening the horizons of scholarship in the performing arts and moving the fields closer together.

The Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness

Author : David B. Audretsch,Albert N. Link,Mary Lindenstein Walshok
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199993307

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The Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness by David B. Audretsch,Albert N. Link,Mary Lindenstein Walshok Pdf

"An analysis of what influences and shapes local competitiveness and what places can do to enhance their economic performance"--

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

Author : Sherril Dodds
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190639082

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition by Sherril Dodds Pdf

In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, and danced meanings. In formalized competitions, dancers are judged according to industry standards to accumulate social capital and financial gain. Within the capitalist economy, dancing bodies compete to win positions in prestigious companies, while choreographers hustle to secure funding and attract audiences. On the social dance floor, dancers participate in dance-offs that often include unspoken, but nevertheless complex, rules of bodily engagement. And the media attraction to the drama and spectacle of competition regularly plays out in reality television shows, film documentaries, and Hollywood cinema. Drawing upon a diverse collection of dances across history and geography, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet

Author : Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel,Jill Nunes Jensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190871499

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet by Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel,Jill Nunes Jensen Pdf

"Nearly four hundred and fifty years in, ballet still resonates-though the stages have become international, and the dancers, athletes far removed from noble amateurs. While vibrations from the form's beginnings clearly resound, much has transformed. Nowadays ballet dancers aspire to work across disciplines with choreographers who value a myriad of abilities. Dance theorists and historians make known possibilities and polemics in lieu of notating dances verbatim, and critics do the daily work of recording performance histories and interviewing artists. Ideas circulate, questions arise, and discussions about how to resist ballet's outmoded traditions take precedence. In the dance community, calls for innovation have defined palpable shifts in ballet's direction and resultantly we have arrived at a new moment in its history that is unquestionably recognized as a genre onto its own: Contemporary Ballet. An aspect of this recent discipline is that its dancemakers, more often than not, seek to reorient the viewer by celebrating what could be deemed vulnerabilities, re-construing ideals of perfection, problematizing the marginalized/mainstream dichotomy, bringing audiences closer in to observe, and letting the art become an experience rather than a distant object preciously guarded out of reach. Hence, the practice of ballet is moving to become a less-mediated and more active process in many circumstances. Performers and audiences alike are challenged, and while convention is still omnipresent, choices are being made. For some, this approach has been drawn on for decades, and for others it signifies a changing of the guard, yet however we arrive there, the conclusion is the same: Contemporary Ballet is not a style. That is to say, it is not a trend, phase, or fashionable term that will fade, rather it is a clear period in ballet's time deserved of investigation. And it is into this moment that we enter"--

Dance on Screen

Author : S. Dodds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230509580

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Dance on Screen by S. Dodds Pdf

Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies from the popular dance imagery of music video and Hollywood, through to experimental art dance. The focus then turns to video dance, dance originally choreographed for the camera. Video dance can be seen as a hybrid in which the theoretical and aesthetic boundaries of dance and television are traversed and disrupted. This new paperback edition includes a new Preface by the author covering key developments since the hardback edition was published in 2001.

The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies

Author : Douglas Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199981601

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The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies by Douglas Rosenberg Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema and media arts articulate the practice of screendance as an interdisciplinary, hybrid form that has yet to be correctly sited as an academic field worthy of critical investigation. Each chapter discusses and reframe current issues, as a means of promoting and enriching dialogue within the wider community of dance and the moving image. Topics addressed embrace politics of the body; agency, race, and gender in screendance; the relationship of choreography to image; constructs of space and time; representation and effacement; production and curatorial practice; and other areas of intersecting disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies features newly-commissioned and original scholarship that will be essential reading for all those interested in the intersection of dance and the moving image, including film and video-makers, dance artists, screendance artists, academics and writers, producers, composers, as well as the wider interested public. It will become an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization

Author : Stephen Ackroyd
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199299249

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The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization by Stephen Ackroyd Pdf

Aims to bring together, present, and discuss what is known about work and organizations and their connection to broader economic change in Europe and America. This volume contains a range of theoretically informed essays, which give comprehensive coverage of changes in work, occupations, and organizations.

The Oxford Handbook of Strategy

Author : David Faulkner,Andrew Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198782551

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The Oxford Handbook of Strategy by David Faulkner,Andrew Campbell Pdf

This two-volume handbook presents an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of how thinking on strategy has evolved and what are the likely developments in the near future. All the contributors are experts in their area, and bring to the topic an understanding informed by many years' experience of research, teaching, and practice. Volume One focuses on two major areas: first, the various different approaches to strategy, and secondly, the development of competitive or business unit strategy, where the pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage is the key objective.