Choreographing Difference: Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance (Studies. Engineering Dynamics Series;9) - Softcover

Albright, Ann Cooper

 
9780819563217: Choreographing Difference: Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance (Studies. Engineering Dynamics Series;9)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0819563218 ISBN 13: 9780819563217
Verlag: University Press of New England, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity — a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings.

Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cultural representation becomes embedded in the body. In arguing for the intelligence of bodies, Choreographing Difference is itself a testimonial, giving voice to some important political, moral, and artistic questions of our time.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

ANN COOPER ALBRIGHT is chair of the Dance Department at Oberlin College. She is the author of Choreographing Difference, Traces of Light, and Modern Gestures, and coeditor of Moving History/Dancing Cultures and Taken by Surprise.

Ann Cooper Albright is Associate Professor of Dance at Oberlin College, where she teaches dance, performance studies, and women's studies courses.

A performer and feminist scholar, Ann Cooper Albright is Associate Professor of Dance at Oberlin College, where she teaches dance, performance studies, and women's studies courses. She is co-editor, with Ann Dils, of Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader (2001).

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Verlag
University Press of New England
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0819563218
ISBN 13 
9780819563217
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Anzahl der Seiten
244
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