The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• Yutian Wong and Jens Richard Giersdorf
• Part I: Methods and Approaches
• 2 Dance History Source Materials
• June Layson
• 3 Shifting Perspectives on Dance Ethnography
• Theresa Jill Buckland
• 4 Dance Studies/Cultural Studies
• Gay Morris
• 5 Dance and Gender: Formalism and Semiotics Reconsidered
• Stephanie Jordan and Helen Thomas
• 6 An Introduction to Dance Analysis
• Janet Adshead-Lansdale
• 7 At Home in the World? The Bharatanatyam Dancer As Transnational Interpreter
• Janet O'Shea
• 8 Differentiating Phenomenology and Dance
• Philippa Rothfield
• 9 Epilogue to an Epilogue: Historicizing the re- in Dance Reenactment
• Mark Franko
• Part II: Practice and Performance
• 10 Grasping Practice: Reflections on Practices of Knowing and Researching in Dance Education
• Yvonne Hardt
• 11 I am a Dancer
• Martha Graham
• 12 Reworking the Ballet: Stillness and Queerness in Swan Lake, 4 Acts
• Vida Midgelow
• 13 Getting off the Orient Express
• Shobana Jeyasingh
• 14 Hips, hip-notism, hip(g)nosis: The Mulata Performances of Ninon Sevilla
• Melissa Blanco Borelli
• 15 Cabbages and Kings: Disability, Dance, and Some Timely Considerations
• Adam Benjamin
• 16 Improvised Dance in the Reconstruction of THEM
• Danielle Goldman
• 17 Staging Choreomusical Research
• Stephanie Schroedter
• 18 Working Out Contemporaneity: Dance and Post-Fordism
• Bojana Kunst
• Part III: Dance as Embodied Ideology
• 19 In Pursuit of the Sylph: Ballet in the Romantic Period
• Deborah Jowitt
• 20 Nijinsky: Modernism and Heterodox Representations of Masculinity
• Ramsay Burt
• 21 From Interculturalism to Historicism: Reflections on Classical Indian Dance (2000/1)
• Pallabi Chakravoty
• 22 Race in Motion: Modern Dance, Negro Dance, and Katherine Dunham
• Susan Manning
• 23 Have They a Right?: Nineteenth-Century Indian Dance Practices and Federal Policy
• Jacqueline Shea Murphy
• 24 Mediating Cambodian History, the Sacred, and the Earth
• Toni Shapiro-Phim
• 25 Choreographing a Flexible Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Taiwan's Changing Identity
• Yatin Lin
• 26 Dancing Salsa Wrong in Los Angeles
• Cindy Garcia
• 27 Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon and Living in a Great Big Way
• Nadine George-Graves
• Part IV: Dance on the Market and in the Media
• 28 Beyonce, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and Choreographic Property
• Anthea Kraut
• 29 "Selling Out" Post-Mao: Dance, Labor, and the Ethics of Fulfillment in Reform Era China
• Emily Wilcox
• 30 So You Think You are Masculine? Dance Reality Television, Spectatorship, and Gender Nonconformity
• Mark Broomfield
• 31 Wii Will Become Silhouettes . . .
• Derek A. Burrill
• 32 "Complex Temporalities": Digitality and Emphemeral Tense in Adam H. Weinert's "The Reaccession of Ted Shawn"
• Harmony Bench
• Part V: Formations of the Field
• 33 Choreographing History
• Susan Foster
• 34 Worlding Dance and Dancing out There in the World
• Marta Elena Savigliano
• 35 Slamdancing with the Boundaries of Theory and Practice: The Legitimization of Popular Dance
• Sherril Dodds
• 36 "This must be one of these performances where science meets the arts": Lecure Performance as Contemporary Dance
• Maaike Bleeker
• 37 Dance Studies in the International Academy: Genealogy of a Disciplinary Formation
• Jens Richard Giersdorf
• Bibliography
• Index