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Moving Words

Re-Writing Dance

Gay Morris

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English
Routledge
30 May 1996
This work provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as discussion of the ways in which which dance contributes to and creates culture. Instead of representing a single viewpoint, the essays in this volume reflect a range of perspectives. The contributors confront basic questions of definition and interpretation within dance studies, while at the same time examining broader issues, such as the body, gender, class, race, nationalism and cross-cultural exchange. Specific essays address such topics as the black male body in dance, gender and subversions in the dances of Mark Morris, race and nationalism in Martha Graham's American Document, and the history of oriental dance. The text should be of interest to historians and critics in a variety of fields. It offers students, scholars and critics of performance and culture an overview of the debates swirling within dance, as well as research articles in dance history, theory and criticism.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   521g
ISBN:   9780415125437
ISBN 10:   041512543X
Pages:   360
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Primary ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
List of figures, List of contributors, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction, Part I Strategies, Analytical and Interpretive, Part II The Body and Gender, Part III Histories Reconsidered, Part IV Cultural Crossings, Index

Gay Morris is dance and art critic whose work has appeared in numerous journals and periodicals, including Dance Chronicle, ArtNews and Art in America. She teaches dance history at Sonoma State University, California

Reviews for Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance

'Moving Words ... is an anthology that no one with a serious interst in dance will want to miss. - Lynn Garafola


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