Studies in Dance History – serie
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14 produkter
Dancing Desires
Choreographing Sexualities on and Off the Stage
Av Jane C. Desmond, Jane C. Desmond
Häftad, 2001
284 kr
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What happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires asks these questions, exploring the …
Dancing Many Drums
Excavations in African American Dance
Av Thomas F. Defrantz, Thomas F. DeFrantz
Häftad, 2002
295 kr
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Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. ""Dancing Many Drums"" explores that influence through a groundbreaking collection of essays on African American dance history, theory and practice. In so doing, it reevalautes …
Kaiso!
Writings by and About Katherine Dunham
Av Veve A. Clark, Sara E. Johnson
Häftad, 2006
352 kr
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Kaiso, a term of praise that is the calypso equivalent of ""bravo,"" is a fitting title for this definitive and celebratory collection of writings by and about Katherine Dunham, the legendary African American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Originally produced in the …
Dancing from Past to Present
Nation, Culture, Identities
Inbunden, 2007
639 kr
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This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and …
Dancing from Past to Present
Nation, Culture, Identities
Häftad, 2007
284 kr
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This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and …
Women's Work
Making Dance in Europe Before 1800
Häftad, 2007
313 kr
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Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women's roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of …
Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey
The Creative Impulse of Reconstruction
Av Lesley Main
Häftad, 2012
352 kr
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Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey looks inside four of Doris Humphrey's major choreographic works - Water Study (1928), The Shakers (1931), With My Red Fires (1936), and Passacaglia (1938) - with an eye to how directorial strategies applied in recent contemporized stagings in the United …
Body of the People
East German Dance Since 1945
Häftad, 2013
342 kr
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The Body of the People is the first comprehensive study of dance and choreography in East Germany. More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jens Richard Giersdorf investigates a national dance history in the German Democratic Republic, from its founding as a Communist state that …
Dramaturgy in Motion
At Work on Dance and Movement Performance
Häftad, 2015
298 kr
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Dramaturgy in Motion innovatively examines the work of the dramaturg in contemporary dance and movement performance. Katherine Profeta, a working dramaturg for more than fifteen years, shifts the focus from asking “Who is the dramaturg?” to “What does the dramaturg think about?”Profeta explores …
Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance
Av Yutian Wong
Häftad, 2018
209 kr
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The definition of Asian American dance is as contested as the definition of ""Asian American."" The contributors to this volume address such topics as the role of the 1960s Asian American movement in creating Japanese American taiko groups, and the experience of internment during World War II …
Dancing Spirit, Love, and War
Performing the Translocal Realities of Contemporary Fiji
Av Evadne Kelly
Inbunden, 2019
516 kr
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Meke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated history of colonialism, racism, censorship, and religious conflict, meke remained a vital part of artistic expression and culture. Evadne Kelly performs close …
Dancing Spirit, Love, and War
Performing the Translocal Realities of Contemporary Fiji
Av Evadne Kelly
Häftad, 2022
298 kr
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Meke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated history of colonialism, racism, censorship, and religious conflict, meke remained a vital part of artistic expression and culture. Evadne Kelly performs close …
Futures of Dance Studies
Av Susan Manning, Janice Ross m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
589 kr
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A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts - onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street - and deploy methods from diverse disciplines. …
Kaiso!
Writings by and about Katherine Dunham
Av Sara E. Johnson, Veve A. Clark
Inbunden, 2006
851 kr
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"Kaiso," a term of praise that is the calypso equivalent of "bravo," is a fitting title for this definitive and celebratory collection of writings by and about Katherine Dunham, the legendary African American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Originally produced in the …
