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The body, the dance and the text : essays on performance and the margins of history
- Title
- The body, the dance and the text : essays on performance and the margins of history / edited by Brynn Wein Shiovitz.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2019.
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- Additional Authors
- Shiovitz, Brynn Wein
- Description
- viii, 268 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on their varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices, with a focus on movement as a meaning-making process--including the choreographic act of writing"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : writing the body, staging the other / Brynn W. Shiovitz -- Mouth over matter : writing early tap dance in the margins of the black body / Brynn W. Shiovitz -- Spain in the basement : dancing race and nation at the Paris Exposition, 1900 / Kiko Mora and K. Meira Goldberg -- White dreadlocks : black aesthetics in the work of Louise Lecavalier and la la la human steps / MJ Thompson -- Flowers of menace : Stephen Petronio's Rites of spring / Constance Valis Hill -- Othering the religious right : ameritude, whiteness and the USA Freedom Kids / Michelle T. Summers -- Escape routes and roots : rewriting the narrative of the vulgar body / A'Keitha Carey -- Lo que queda/that which remains : dancing bodies, historical erasure and cultural transmission / Michelle Heffner Hayers -- Screaming soundscapes : the sounds of Puerto Rican contemporary performance in the work of Teresa Hernandez and Ivette Roman / Lydia Platón Lázaro -- Always already : the Jewish body as victim and victimizer" / Rebecca K. Pappas -- Israel Galvan's aesthetic anarchism : an ethics instantiated in motion / Ninotchka D. Bennahum -- Brown and black : performing transmission in Trisha Brown's Locus and Hosoe Eikoh and Hijikata Tatsumi's Kamaitachi / Michael Sakamoto and Christopher Rasheem McMillan -- The bustle, the body and stillness : re-centering modernities through the Broadway musical / Gwyneth Shanks -- Gradations of presence : armida in nineteenth-century Italian dance librettos / Melissa Melpignano -- Choreogrammatics : about the cover of this book / Linda Carreiro.
- Call Number
- *MGRL 19-2340
- ISBN
- 9781476671895
- 1476671893
- LCCN
- 2018059702
- OCLC
- 1040232939
- Title
- The body, the dance and the text : essays on performance and the margins of history / edited by Brynn Wein Shiovitz.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Shiovitz, Brynn Wein, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Body, the dance and the text. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Inc., [2019] 9781476634852 (OCoLC)1084251621
- Research Call Number
- *MGRL 19-2340