Decentring Dancing Texts
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Decentring Dancing Texts

The Challenge of Interpreting Dances

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Decentring Dancing Texts

The Challenge of Interpreting Dances

About this book

Eleven authors analyse recent dance practices in the theatre, in club culture and on film, addressing dance in interdisciplinary relationship with music, painting and play texts. This text attempts to fill a gap with an up-to-date account of exciting and challenging new work, illuminated by fascinatingnew theoretical frameworks.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Notes on the Contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1 Intertextual Narratives in Dance Analysis
  7. 2 Betraying History? An Historiographic Analysis of The Judas Tree (1992)
  8. 3 Unbalancing the Authentic/Partnering Classicism: Shobana Jeyasingh’s Choreography and the Bharata Natyam ‘Tradition’
  9. 4 Akram Khan’s ma (2004): An Essay in Hybridisation and Productive Ambiguity
  10. 5 Elusive Narratives: Mats Ek
  11. 6 On the Premises of French Contemporary Dance: Concepts, Collectivity and ‘Trojan Horses’ in the Work of JĂ©rĂŽme Bel and LoĂŻc TouzĂ©
  12. 7 Chasing Voices: Ian Spink’s Dancing Fugue (1988)
  13. 8 Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s Both Sitting Duet (2002): A Discursive Choreomusical Collaboration
  14. 9 Lea Anderson, Dancing and Drawing the Past into the Present
  15. 10 Mad Hot Ballroom and the Politics of Transformation
  16. 11 Mapping the Multifarious: the Genrification of Dance Music Club Cultures
  17. 12 Harpies and Pyjamas: the Making of Heart Thief (2003)
  18. Index