Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Lepecki, André.

Description

1. 184 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative title

1. Essays on dance and performance theory

Subject

1. Dance -- Sociological aspects
2. Human body -- Symbolic aspects
3. Movement, Aesthetics of
4. Human locomotion

Contents

1. Introduction: Presence and Body in Dance and Performance Theory / André Lepecki -- Genealogies of Presence -- Trisha Brown's Orfeo: Two Takes on Double Endings / Peggy Phelan -- Genealogy and Dance History: Foucault, Rainer, Bausch, and de Keersmaeker / Ramsay Burt -- Dancing Othering -- Dance and Its Others: Theory, State, Nation, and Socialism / Randy Martin -- The Black Beat Made Visible: Hip Hop Dance and Body Power / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Danced Spirituals / Susan Manning -- Breast Milk Is Sweet and Salty (A Choreography of Healing) / Barbara Browning -- Ontology's Events -- Given Movement: Dance and the Event / Mark Franko -- Inscribing Dance / André Lepecki -- Embodying Transgression / Karmen MacKendrick.

Call number

1. *MGRL 04-3547

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-175) and index.

Title

1. Of the presence of the body : essays on dance and performance theory / edited by André Lepecki.

Imprint

1. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2004.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-175) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents

Added author

1. Lepecki, André.

LCCN

1. 2003023913

ISBN

1. 081956611X (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 9780819566119 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 0819566128 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 9780819566126 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. *MGRL 04-3547