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What is Rethinking Dance History about?

Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Notes on contributors 11 Preface to the second edition 14 PART 1 Why dance history? 16 Introduction to Part 1: why dance history? 18 1 Memory, history and the sensory body: dance, time, identity 23 2 Cara tranders’s reveries: the Autobiography of Cara Tranders, Ballet Girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892–99 36 3 Beyond fixity: Akram Khan on the politics of dancing heritages 47 4 African-American dance revisited: undoing master narratives in the studying and teaching of dance history 59 5 Dance works, concepts and historiography 71 6 Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice 84 7 Preserving the repertory and extending the heritage of Merce Cunningham 97 8 Making dance history live – performing the past 109 PART 2 Researching and writing 122 Introduction to Part 2: researching and writing 124 9 Destabilising the discipline: critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance 129 10 Decolonising dance history 138 11 Many sources, many voices 151 12 ‘Dream no small dreams!’: impossible archival imaginaries in dance community archiving in a digital age 163 13 When place matters: provincializing the

Author

Larraine Nicholas,Geraldine Morris

Language

EN