Research Catalog

Title

Choreographies of 21st century wars / edited by Gay Morris and Jens Richard Giersdorf.

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Morris, Gay, 1940-
• Giersdorf, Jens Richard

Description

ix, 369 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Oxford studies in dance theory

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in dance theory.

Alternative Title

Choreographies of twenty-first century wars

Subject

• Dance > Political aspects
• Choreography > Political aspects
• Dance criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Contemporary Choreographies of Wars / Gay Morris and Jens Richard Giersdorf -- Access Denied and Sumud : Making a Dance of Asymmetric Warfare / Nicholas Rowe -- Questioning the Truth : Rachid Ouramdane's Investigation of Torture in Des Témoins Ordinaires/Ordinary Witnesses / Alessandra Nicifero -- "There's a Soldier in All of Us" : Choreographing Virtual Recruitment / Derek A. Burrill -- African Refugees Asunder in South Africa : Performing the Fallout of Violence in Every Day, Every Year, I am Walking / Sarah Davies Cordova -- From Temple to Battlefield : Bharata Natyam in the Sri Lankan Civil War / Janet O'Shea -- Choreographing Masculinity in Contemporary Israeli Culture / Yehuda Sharim -- Affective Temporalities : Dance, Media, and the War on Terror / Harmony Bench -- Specter of War, Spectacle of Peace : The Lowering of Flag Ceremony at Wagah and Hussainiwala Borders / Neelima Jeychandran -- A Choreographer's Statement / Bill T. Jones -- Dancing in the Spring : Dance, Hegemony and Change / Rosemary Martin -- War and P.E.A.C.E / Maaike Bleeker & Janez Jana -- The Body is the Frontline / Rosie Kay and Dee Reynolds -- Geo-Choreography and Necropolitics : Faustin Linyekula's Studios Kabako, Democratic Republic of Congo / Ariel Osterweis Re-moving bodies in the USA/Mexico drug/border/terror/cold wars / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco -- After Cranach : War, Representation and the Body in William Forsythe's Three Atmospheric Studies / Gerald Siegmund -- The Role of Choreography in Civil Society under Siege : William Forsythe's Three Atmospheric Studies / Mark Franko.

Call Number

*MGRL 16-1754

ISBN

• 9780190201661
• 0190201665
• 9780190201678
• 0190201673

LCCN

2015014751

OCLC

915135656

Title

Choreographies of 21st century wars / edited by Gay Morris and Jens Richard Giersdorf.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford studies in dance theory

Oxford studies in dance theory.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Morris, Gay, 1940- editor.

Giersdorf, Jens Richard, editor.

Research Call Number

*MGRL 16-1754