Funny Moves

Dance Humor Politics

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a particular dance form. Funniness in dance, whether gleeful, surprising, or odd, causes disruptions which may be progressive or conservative, inciting pleasures that counterbalance the artform's often serious codes.Writing from Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe, and the United States, the book's ten authors provide diverse observational techniques and creative vocabularies for finding, analyzing, and theorizing funny moves across dance forms, dance scenes, and dance screens. Some of the authors find hope in the laughter of their artist subjects and their audiences, and some linger in the ambiguity and confusion so created. Each essay takes on a single surprise factor or a choreographic comic rupture, relishing in the amassed effects or affects across an absurdist cinematic, staged, or quotidian sequence. What is "funny" in each case pops up as a wildcard that evokes recognizable shared experiences, sometimes pushing back against dominant or mainstream logic and its supremacist laughter.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-23
Mått:161 x 233 x 15 mm
Vikt:417 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197765777

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Folkdans inom Kultur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Marta E. Savigliano is Professor Emerita of Critical Dance Studies, Dance Department, University of California, Riverside and of Culture and Performance, World Arts and Cultures Department, University of California Los Angeles. She is the author of Tango and the Political Economy of Passion, Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation and of numerous articles. She received the Dance Studies Association Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance Award (2024). Hannah Schwadron is Associate Professor of Dance, School of Dance, Florida State University. She is the author of The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender, and Jewish Joke-Work in US Pop Culture and various published essays. She received the de la Torre Bueno Prize for Best First Book (2018).

Recensioner i media

Throughout, the writers identify, analyze, and theorize some of what can be considered funny dance movement in different genres and circumstances. Dance humor is claimed as both disruptive and pleasurable- a mechanism for freeing both performers and observers to experience new forms of awareness.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments: Dance Humor in Crisis List of Contributors Introduction Marta E. Savigliano and Hannah Schwadron Section One: Funny Dancing, Formally 1. "Now is the time. Come, come!": Gender, Caste, and Erotic Humor in Bharatanatyam Anusha Kedhar 2. Burla y Bulla: Humor and Critique in Flamenco Michelle Heffner Hayes 3. Insolent Tangos Marta E. Savigliano Section Two: She Who Laughs Last Dances 4. StoryTAILS of a Wounded Sister Adanna K. Jones 5. Gendering Angry Fun: Sensual Improprieties in Shamin Ara's Urdu Action Film Esha Niyogi De Section Three: Vamping Onto White Film 6. Chaplin's Border Moves and My Own: Dance and Humor in the Tijuana-San Diego Region Minerva Tapia 7. Un/funny Business in On the Town (1949) Anthea Kraut Section Four: Dancing Funny Otherwise 8. Sincerely Funny or Funny Sincerity: Avatar: The Last Airbender and Cosplay Choreographies Yutian Wong 9. Dancing Displa(y)cements: Anticolonial Humor in Al-Hakawati's DestiNations Unknown (Berlin 2020) Hannah Schwadron 10. Transfeminine Joking on Argentina's Bailando por un Sueño Jeffrey Tobin Index