Worlding Dance

by S. Foster (Editor)

Overview

What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230298385
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/10/2009
Series:	Studies in International Performance
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

ANANYA CHATTERJEA Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, USA, and Artistic Director of Ananya Dance Theatre LENA HAMMERGREN Assistant Professor in Dance Studies at the Department for Musicology and Performance Studies, Skholm University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at University College of Dance, Skholm ANTHEA KRAUT Assistant Professor in the Dance Department at the University of California, Riverside, USA MARTA E. SAVIGLIANO Co-director of GLOSAS (Global South Advanced Studies), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Professor Emeritus of University of California Los Angeles' World Arts and Cultures Department, and Visiting Professor at University of California, Riverside's Dance Department JACQUELINE SHEA MURPHY Associate Professor in the Dance Department at the University of California, Riverside, USA PRIYA SRINIVASAN Assistant Professor in Dance at the University of California, Riverside, USA YUTIAN WONG Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies and Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Worlding Dance – An Introduction; S.L.Foster The Power of Classification; L.Hammergren Mobilizing (in) the Archive: Santee Smith's Kaha:wi ; J.S.Murphy A "Material"-ist Reading of the Bharata Natyam Dancing Body: The Possibility of the "Unruly Spectator"; P.Srinivasan Race-ing Choreographic Copyright; A.Kraut Choreographies and Choreographers; S.L.Foster Red-stained Feet: Probing the Ground On Which Women Dance in Contemporary Bengal; A.Chatterjea Artistic Utopias: Michio Ito and the Trope of the International; Y.Wong Worlding Dance and Dancing Out There in the World; M.E.Savigliano Works Cited Index

Editorial Reviews

'The range of articles makes Foster's collection both methodologically and thematically an invaluable resource far beyond dance, and relevant for anyone in performance and theatre studies wrestling with the complexity of writing history from a global perspective.'

- Sabine Sörgel, Aberystwyth University, UK, Theatre Research International

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