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BOOK COVER 1 TITLE 4 COPYRIGHT 5 CONTENTS 6 CONTRIBUTORS 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 16 1 ROOTS/ROUTES OF DANCE STUDIES 20 PART I: MAKING DANCE 36 2 CHOREOGRAPHERS: Dancing for de Valois and Ashton 42 3 TORSE: There are no fixed points in space 48 4 RECOVERING HURSTON, RECONSIDERING THE CHOREOGRAPHER 54 5 REWORKING THE BALLET: Stillness and queerness in Swan Lake, 4 Acts 66 6 MAKING SPACE, SPEAKING SPACES 77 7 REFLECTIONS ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN INDIAN DANCE 92 8 WHAT’S IT WORTH TO YA? ADAPTATION AND ANACHRONISM: Rennie Harris’s PureMovement and Shakespeare 97 PART II: PERFORMING DANCE 110 9 I AM A DANCER 114 10 TRACING THE PAST: Writing history through the body 120 11 CABBAGES AND KINGS: Disability, dance and some timely considerations 130 12 HIPS, HIP-NOTISM, HIP(G)NOSIS: The mulata performances of Ninón Sevilla 141 13 STILL CURIOUS 152 PART III: WAYS OF LOOKING 164 14 DANCE AND GENDER: Formalism and semiotics reconsidered 168 15 A TAPESTRY OF INTERTEXTS: Dance analysis for the twenty-first century 177 16 LOOKING AT MOVEMENT AS CULTURE: Contact improvisation to disco 187 17 GETTING OFF THE ORIENT EXPRESS 200 18 BRIDGING THE CRITICAL DISTANCE 207 19 TWO ANALYSES OF ‘DANCING IN THE DARK’ (THE

Author

Alexandra Carter and Janet O’Shea (edt)

Language

EN