Dance in the City
- Author: Thomas, Helen
Dance in the City
- Author: Thomas, Helen
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This exciting new and original collection locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. It highlights a diversity of dance forms and styles that can be witnessed in and around contemporary urban spaces: from dance halls to raves and the club striptease; from set dancing to ballroom dancing, to hip hop and swing, and to ice dance shows; from the ballet class, to fitness aerobics; and 'art' dance which situates itself in a dynamic relation to the city.
Contents
- List of Plates -
- Preface - Notes on
- Contributors -
- PART 1 : DANCE IN THE CITY/THE CITY IN DANCE - Dancing around Meaning (and the Meaning around Dance); A.Ward - Exer(or)cising Power: Black Bodies in the Black Public Sphere; P.Gilroy - 'Keep your Great City Paris!': the Lament of the Empress and other Wom
- PART 2 : STEPPING OUT - Ballroom Blitz; H.Thomas & N.Miller - Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine; M.Pini - Madame Smudge, some Fossils, and other Missing Links: Unearthing the Ballet Class; L-A.Sayers - Safe Sets: Women, Dance, and 'Communitas'; B.O'
- PART 3 : BORDER COUNTRY - Nazism and the Call of the Jitterbug; L.Back - Aerobic Dance and the City: Individual and Social Space; S.Prickett - Dance and Erotica: The Construction of the Female Stripper; S.Dodds - Let's Face the Music - and Dance?: Torvill
- Index
