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Of the presence of the body : essays on dance and performance theory

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Of the presence of the body : essays on dance and performance theory / edited by André Lepecki.
Publication
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors
Lepecki, André.
Description
184 p.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Essays on dance and performance theory
Subject
  • Dance > Sociological aspects
  • Human body > Symbolic aspects
  • Movement, Aesthetics of
  • Human locomotion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-175) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Presence and Body in Dance and Performance Theory / André Lepecki -- Genealogies of Presence -- Trisha Brown's Orfeo: Two Takes on Double Endings / Peggy Phelan -- Genealogy and Dance History: Foucault, Rainer, Bausch, and de Keersmaeker / Ramsay Burt -- Dancing Othering -- Dance and Its Others: Theory, State, Nation, and Socialism / Randy Martin -- The Black Beat Made Visible: Hip Hop Dance and Body Power / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Danced Spirituals / Susan Manning -- Breast Milk Is Sweet and Salty (A Choreography of Healing) / Barbara Browning -- Ontology's Events -- Given Movement: Dance and the Event / Mark Franko -- Inscribing Dance / André Lepecki -- Embodying Transgression / Karmen MacKendrick.
Call Number
*MGRL 04-3547
ISBN
  • 081956611X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780819566119 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0819566128 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780819566126 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003023913
OCLC
53331678
Title
Of the presence of the body : essays on dance and performance theory / edited by André Lepecki.
Imprint
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-175) and index.
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Lepecki, André.
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*MGRL 04-3547
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