Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance

Contents

• Illustrations
• Preface
• CHAPTER ONE
• Reading Dance: Composing the Choreographer, the Dancer, and the Viewer
• Deborah Hay
• George Balanchine
• Martha Graham
• Merce Cunningham
• Four Bodies and Subjects
• CHAPTER TWO
• Reading Choreography: Composing Dances
• Frames
• Modes of Representation
• Styles
• Vocabularies
• Syntaxes
• Reading the Performance
• CHAPTER THREE
• Readings in Dance's History: Historical Approaches to Dance Composition
• Allegorical Dance in the Late Renaissance
• Neoclassical Dance in the Eighteenth Century
• Expressionist Dance in the Early Twentieth Century
• Objectivist Dance from 1950 to the Present
• CHAPTER FOUR
• Writing Dancing: The Viewer as Choreographer in Contemporary Dance
• The Grand Union
• Meredith Monk
• Twyla Tharp
• Writing Bodies and Subjects
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index