Research Catalog

Title

Looking out : perspectives on dance and criticism in a multicultural world / Dance Critics Association ; edited by David Gere ; coeditors, Lewis Segal, Patrice Clark Koelsch, Elizabeth Zimmer.

Publication

New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gere, David.
• Dance Critics Association (U.S.)

Description

xi, 242 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• Looking Out is the first collection of writings to address the impact of multiculturalism on the dance world. It is unique in offering various perspectives, enlisting leading dance critics, performers, choreographers, and academics in a wide-ranging discussion of how dance from around the world can be better understood.
• Inspired by a groundbreaking 1990 conference of the Dance Critics Association, the book consists of a series of essays, each addressing a different facet of the problems and possibilities of multiculturalism.

Subjects

• Dance criticism
• Multiculturalism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / David Gere -- Critical Imperatives in Writing About World Dance / Bruce Fleming -- The Politics of Performance in International Cultural Exchange / Ricardo D. Trimillos -- World Dance on Western Stages / Lewis Segal -- Holy Architecture and Inner Landscapes / Nicole Plett, Vicky Holt Takamine, Sardono W. Kusumo, R. M. Soedarsono, Peter Nabokov, Julia Pardoe and Kapila Vatsyayan -- Hollywood Images of World Dance / Allegra Fuller Snyder -- The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- A Choreographer Confronts Racism in Dance / Jawole Willa Jo Zollar -- Language and Truth in Dance-World Politics / Joan Acocella -- International Critics Look at Javanese Bedhaya / Alastair Macaulay, Sal Murgiyanto, Christine Temin, Deborah Jowitt, Lewis Segal, Gus Solomons, Jr., Judith Green, Jack Anderson, Marcia B. Siegel, Paul Parish, Allan Ulrich, Nicole Plett and Barbara Figge Fox -- Watching American Critics Watch World Dance / June Vail --
• A Discussion Among Writers / Deborah Jowitt, Joan Acocella and Marcia B. Siegel -- A Choreographer Soaks Up the World / Mark Morris and Joan Acocella -- The End-of-the-Century Society / Guillermo Gomez-Pena -- A Critical Call to Arms / Marcia B. Siegel.

ISBN

0028706838 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95068941

OCLC

• 33469359
• ocm33469359

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries