Oxford Studies in Dance Theory – serie
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Body Impossible
Desmond Richardson and the Politics of Virtuosity
Inbunden, 2024
1418 kr
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Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. A virtuoso for the ages, Richardson is renowned for delivering commanding performances over decades in contexts ranging from the stages of the Alvin …
Moving Modernism
The Urge to Abstraction in Painting, Dance, Cinema
Av Nell Andrew
Inbunden, 2020
1880 kr
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In early twentieth-century Europe, the watershed developments of pictorial abstraction, modern dance, and cinema coincided to shift the artistic landscape and the future of modern art. In Moving Modernism, Nell Andrew challenges assumptions about modernist abstraction and its appearance in the …
Moving Modernism
The Urge to Abstraction in Painting, Dance, Cinema
Av Nell Andrew
Häftad, 2020
846 kr
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In early twentieth-century Europe, the watershed developments of pictorial abstraction, modern dance, and cinema coincided to shift the artistic landscape and the future of modern art. In Moving Modernism, Nell Andrew challenges assumptions about modernist abstraction and its appearance in the …
One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet
La Source 1866-2014
Inbunden, 2020
2281 kr
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In 1866, when the ballet La Source debuted, the public at the Paris Opera may have been content to dream about its setting in the verdant Caucasus, its exotic Circassians, veiled Georgians, and powerful Khan. Yet the ballet's botany also played to a public thinking about ethnic and exotic others at …
One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet
La Source 1866-2014
Häftad, 2020
595 kr
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In 1866, when the ballet La Source debuted, the public at the Paris Opera may have been content to dream about its setting in the verdant Caucasus, its exotic Circassians, veiled Georgians, and powerful Khan. Yet the ballet's botany also played to a public thinking about ethnic and exotic others at …
Choreographies of 21st Century Wars
Inbunden, 2016
2847 kr
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Wars in this century are radically different from the major conflicts of the 20th century--more amorphous, asymmetrical, globally connected, and unending. Choreographies of 21st Century Wars is the first book to analyze the interface between choreography and wars in this century, a pertinent …
Choreographies of 21st Century Wars
Av Gay Morris, Jens Richard Giersdorf
Häftad, 2016
1148 kr
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Wars in this century are radically different from the major conflicts of the 20th century--more amorphous, asymmetrical, globally connected, and unending. Choreographies of 21st Century Wars is the first book to analyze the interface between choreography and wars in this century, a pertinent …
Dancing the World Smaller
Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America
Inbunden, 2020
1998 kr
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which …
Dancing the World Smaller
Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America
Häftad, 2020
751 kr
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which …
Body Impossible
Desmond Richardson and the Politics of Virtuosity
Häftad, 2024
434 kr
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Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. A virtuoso for the ages, Richardson is renowned for delivering commanding performances over decades in contexts ranging from the stages of the Alvin …
Gestural Imaginaries
Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2019
2260 kr
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Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of …
Gestural Imaginaries
Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2019
895 kr
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Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of …
Choreomania
Dance and Disorder
Inbunden, 2018
2422 kr
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From the condemnation of protest to skepticism of religious ecstasy, radical movement has been defined by freedoms and restrictions relative to class conflict, national policy, and colonialism. In this book, author Kélina Gotman examines choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of …
Choreomania
Dance and Disorder
Häftad, 2018
991 kr
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When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the disorder being described is choreomania. At once a catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly movements of crowds, choreomania emerged in the …
The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar
Interwar French Ballet and the German Occupation
Av Mark Franko
Inbunden, 2020
2281 kr
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Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar (1905-86) is recognized both as the modernizer of French ballet in the twentieth century and as the keeper of the flame of the classical tradition upon which the glory of French ballet was founded. Having migrated to France from Russia in 1923 to join …
The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar
Interwar French Ballet and the German Occupation
Av Mark Franko
Häftad, 2020
559 kr
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Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar (1905-86) is recognized both as the modernizer of French ballet in the twentieth century and as the keeper of the flame of the classical tradition upon which the glory of French ballet was founded. Having migrated to France from Russia in 1923 to join …
Kinesthetic Peoplehood
Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations
Inbunden, 2026
2119 kr
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Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations explores how people experience diaspora not only through geography or shared histories of exile and displacement, but also through the body itself. Drawing upon extensive archival materials, interviews, and ethnographic research, this book …
Kinesthetic Peoplehood
Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations
Häftad, 2027
378 kr
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Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations explores how people experience diaspora not only through geography or shared histories of exile and displacement, but also through the body itself. Drawing upon extensive archival materials, interviews, and ethnographic research, this book …
Fabrications
Dance, Costume, and Material Culture
Inbunden, 2026
1344 kr
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How does the manufacture, design, and commodification of costume inform choreography and determine what dancers have worn on stage? How do certain types of costume influence the experience of dance and choreography for the performers, or for the audience? What political or social affects contribute …
Fabrications
Dance, Costume, and Material Culture
Häftad, 2026
389 kr
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How does the manufacture, design, and commodification of costume inform choreography and determine what dancers have worn on stage? How do certain types of costume influence the experience of dance and choreography for the performers, or for the audience? What political or social affects contribute …
Unworking Choreography
The Notion of the Work in Dance
Inbunden, 2017
2705 kr
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There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, dance refers …
Unworking Choreography
The Notion of the Work in Dance
Häftad, 2017
1091 kr
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There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, dance refers …
Ungoverning Dance
Contemporary European Theatre Dance and the Commons
Av Ramsay Burt
Inbunden, 2016
2847 kr
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Ungoverning Dance examines the work of progressive contemporary dance artists in continental Europe from the mid 1990s to 2015. Placing this within its historical and political context - that of neoliberalism and austerity - it argues that these artists have developed an ethico-aesthetic approach …
Ungoverning Dance
Contemporary European Theatre Dance and the Commons
Av Ramsay Burt
Häftad, 2016
741 kr
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Ungoverning Dance examines the work of progressive contemporary dance artists in continental Europe from the mid 1990s to 2015. Placing this within its historical and political context - that of neoliberalism and austerity - it argues that these artists have developed an ethico-aesthetic approach …
Making Ballet American
Modernism Before and Beyond Balanchine
Inbunden, 2017
2422 kr
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George Balanchine's arrival in the United States in 1933, it is widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a bold and original neoclassical style that is celebrated as the first successful American manifestation of the art form. This book intervenes in the prevailing …
Making Ballet American
Modernism Before and Beyond Balanchine
Häftad, 2017
595 kr
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George Balanchine's arrival in the United States in 1933, it is widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a bold neoclassical style that is celebrated as the first American manifestation of the art form. In Making Ballet American, author Andrea Harris challenges this …
Dance as Text
Ideologies of the Baroque Body
Av Mark Franko
Häftad, 2015
1280 kr
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Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period,p beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author Mark Franko analyzes court ballet …
Watching Weimar Dance
Av Kate Elswit
Inbunden, 2014
2894 kr
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Watching Weimar Dance asks what audiences saw in the peculiarly turbulent and febrile moment of the Weimar Republic. It closely analyses the reception of various performances, from cabaret to concert dance and experimental theatre, in their own time and place - at home in interwar Germany, on tour, …
Watching Weimar Dance
Av Kate Elswit
Häftad, 2014
1016 kr
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Watching Weimar Dance asks what audiences saw in the peculiarly turbulent and febrile moment of the Weimar Republic. It closely analyses the reception of various performances, from cabaret to concert dance and experimental theatre, in their own time and place - at home in interwar Germany, on tour, …
Poetics of Dance
Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes
Inbunden, 2015
2136 kr
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When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde …
