The Body, the Dance and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Writing the Body, Staging the Other (Brynn W. Shiovitz)
• Part 1: Writing the Body
• Mouth Over Matter: Writing Early Tap Dance in the Margins
• of the Black Body (Brynn W. Shiovitz)
• Spain in the Basement: Dancing Race and Nation at the
• Paris Exposition, 1900 (Kiko Mora and K. Meira Goldberg)
• White Dreadlocks: Black Aesthetics in the Work of Louise
• Lecavalier and La La La Human Steps (MJ Thompson)
• Flowers of Menace: Stephen Petronio’s Rites of Spring Constance Valis Hill
• Part 2: Transmissions and Traces
• Othering the Religious Right: Ameritude, Whiteness and the
• USA Freedom Kids (Michelle T. Summers)
• Escape Routes and Roots: Rewriting the Narrative of the
• Vulgar Body (A’Keitha Carey)
• Lo Que Queda/That Which Remains: Dancing Bodies,
• Historical Erasure and Cultural Transmission (Michelle Heffner Hayes)
• Screaming Soundscapes: The Sounds of Puerto Rican Contemporary Performance in the Work of Teresa Hernández and Ivette Román
• (Lydia Platón Lázaro)
• Part 3: Staging the Other
• Always Already: The Jewish Body as Victim and Victimizer (Rebecca K. Pappas)
• Israel Galván’s Aesthetic Anarchism: An Ethics Instantiated
• in Motion (Ninotchka D. Bennahum)
• Brown and Black: Performing Transmission in Trisha Brown’s Locus and Hosoe Eikoh and Hijikata Tatsumi’s Kamaitachi (Michael Sakamoto and Christopher-Rasheem McMillan)
• The Bustle, the Body and Stillness: ­Re-Centering Modernities through the Broadway Musical (Gwyneth Shanks)
• Gradations of Presence: Armida in ­Nineteenth-Century
• Italian Dance Librettos (Melissa Melpignano)
• Choreogrammatics: About the Cover of This Book (Linda Carreiro)
• About the Contributors
• Index