Meaning in Motion
by Desmond, Jane C.; Fish, Stanley Eugene; Jameson, FredricFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-05-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
"Excellent! "Meaning in Motion" will make it much easier for scholars concerned primarily with cultural studies to consider the challenges dance poses in 'rethinking the body.'"-- Peggy Phelan, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Author Biography
Jane C. Desmond is Associate Professor of Ameerican Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Iowa.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Dance and Cultural Studies | |
| Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies | p. 29 |
| Cultural Studies and Dance History | p. 55 |
| Social Lives, Social Bodies | |
| Reinstating Corporeality: Feminism and Body Politics | p. 81 |
| "The Story Is Told as a History of the Body": Strategies of Mimesis in the Work of Irigaray and Bausch | p. 101 |
| Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference | p. 111 |
| Ballet as Ideology: Giselle, Act 2 | p. 121 |
| Dancing the Orient for England: Maud Allan's The Vision of Salome | p. 133 |
| The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze: Feminist Critiques of Early Modern Dance | p. 153 |
| Some Thoughts on Choreographing History | p. 167 |
| Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in Dance | p. 179 |
| Dance Narratives and Fantasies of Achievement | p. 207 |
| Expanding Agendas for Critical Thinking | |
| Dancing Bodies | p. 235 |
| Spectacle and Dancing Bodies That Matter: Or, If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It | p. 259 |
| Sense, Meaning, and Perception in Three Dance Cultures | p. 269 |
| Some Notes on Yvonne Rainer, Modernism, Politics, Emotion, Performance, and the Aftermath | p. 289 |
| Homogenized Ballerinas | p. 305 |
| Dance Ethnography and the Limits of Representation | p. 321 |
| Vodou, Nationalism, and Performance: The Staging of Folklore in Mid-Twentieth-Century Haiti | p. 345 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 379 |
| Permissions | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 385 |
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