Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance
- Author: Symonds, Dominic
- Author: Taylor, Millie
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Contents
- Introduction: Singing the Dance, Dancing the Song
- Chapter 1: The Song's the Thing: Capturing the Sung to Make it Song
- Chapter 2: The (Un)Pleasure of Song: On the Enjoyment of Listening to Opera
- Performativity as Dramaturgy
- Chapter 3: Relocating the Song: Julie Taymor's Jukebox Musical Across the Universe (2007)
- Chapter 4: Dynamic shape: the Dramaturgy of Song and Dance in Lloyd Webber's Cats (1981)
- Performativity as Transition
- Chapter 5: Dance Breaks and Dream Ballets: Transitional Moments in Musical Theater
- Chapter 6: Love Let Me Sing you: The Liminality of Song and Dance in La Chiusa's Bernarda Alba (2006)
- Performativity as Identity
- Chapter 7: Tapping the Ivories: Jazz and Tap Dance in Jelly's Last Jam (1992).
- Chapter 8: Everything's Coming up Kurt: the Broadway Song in Glee
- Chapter 9: Angry Dance: Postmodern Innovation, Masculinities and Gender Subversion
- Performativity as Context
- Chapter 10: Deconstructing the Singer: the Concerts of Laurie Anderson
- Chapter 11: Singing and a Song: The Intimate Difference in Susan Philipsz's Lowlands (2010)
- Chapter 12: Acting Operatically: Body, Voice and the Actress in Beckett's Theater
- Performativity as Practice
- Chapter 13: Vox Elettronica: Song, Dance and Live Electronics in the Practice of Sound Theater
- Chapter 14: From Ear to Foot: How Choreographers Interpret Music
- Chapter 15: Singing from Stones: Physiovocality and Gardzienice's Theater of Musicality
- Performativity as Community
- Chapter 16: Singing the Community: the Musical Theater Chorus as Character
- Chapter 17: Singing and Dancing Ourselves: The Politics of the Ensemble in A Chorus Line (1975)
- Performativity as Writing
- Bibliography
- Index
- Bibliography